Principal Software Engineer, Client

The role involves being part of a cross-functional team of talented developers working together to create the best sports betting experience in the world. As a Principal Engineer, you will work across teams within a Client area, contributing to the teams' backlogs and taking on larger initiatives with other Principal Engineers. The Principal Engineer has a deep, strategic understanding of the product in their business area and makes technical decisions to solve business problems.

Draw on relevant technical expertise to help guide engineering teams to create great products, remaining solution-focused at all times. This is a hands-on role, requiring strong software engineering skills including architecting, designing, and developing Node.js microservices and React.js microfrontends, integrating 3rd party components, and providing APIs to build up the entire sports betting experience. The data follows the customer's path, from checking the odds, placing a bet, and cashing out. Your expertise lies within JavaScript/TypeScript development, but there will be opportunities to technically support your colleagues in other technical domains as well.

What you will do:

• Drive the technical roadmap for your business area, aligning with technical strategy.
• Provide technical leadership within the business area, working cross-functionally with teams in an agile environment.
• Ensure performance and quality of deliveries across teams through guidance and mentoring.
• Work across the vertical in close collaboration with teams, other PEs, Domain architects, PELs, and stakeholders.
• Provide expert knowledge of the business area in technical initiatives across Kindred.
• Be a consultant early on for upcoming projects/initiatives.
• Support innovation and look at new opportunities.
• Act as a technical representative for your business area at appropriate platforms e.g. demos, geek sessions, meet-ups.
• Ensure that you adhere to the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) obligations for your role.
• Identify and raise any non-compliance incidents promptly to your line manager.
• Challenge processes, policies, and projects that will negatively impact compliance within the Group.
• Complete all mandatory compliance training assigned to you.
• Reach out to the Compliance Teams if unsure of any of your compliance obligations or if the requirements are unclear.

Your experience:

• Expert software design and coding skills – at least 10 years of hands-on experience.
• Outstanding problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Wide business knowledge that supports building cross-team solutions right.
• Confident with solving complex architectural challenges, finding optimum solutions that can span across teams.
• Ability to rapidly appraise the technical landscape in a business area, understanding components, architecture, and dependencies.
• Capable of understanding the technical strategy for all technical domains in your business area.
• Used to taking responsibility and driving change.
• Ability to present, share knowledge, and best practices to stakeholders at all levels in the organization.
• You are a positive person by nature and have a passion for what you do, putting teamwork and collaboration above all else.

We like to use Microservices and microfrontends, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, SpringBoot, Python, Event-driven architecture based on Kafka and Solace Queue, Restful APIs, gRPC, and socket-based APIs, Relational and NoSQL databases, Docker and Kubernetes, Jenkins, and ArgoCD, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, Best development practices, Agile and lean values.