principal software engineer.

job summary:
Your role is hands-on, synthesizing broader technical strategies into team-level actions. You will

demonstrate ownership and initiative to build product and system knowledge, contribute to coding

solutions, understand technical trends and best practices, and implement these effectively. Success in

your role will ensure successful, high-quality technical delivery and implementation of our software

solutions.

 
location: Warren, Michigan
job type: Contract
salary: $85 - 95 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
 
responsibilities:
Responsibilities:

- Product focus: Closely collaborates with engineering teams to architect and develop resilient; reliable; scalable; secure; compliant; and highly available products -- with plans to mitigate system risk.

- Standards/Best Practices: Identifies, documents, communicates, champions, and drives adoption for: standards; policies; processes; best practices; and aligned software architecture/software engineering points of view.

- Leadership: Encourages positive conflict and discourse within the team to challenge our thinking and ensure the best ideas surface - no matter where they may arise from. Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and feedback to team members to grow overall team capabilities.

- Outcome-Oriented: Displays ownership of outcomes. Provides trusted expertise for effort estimates. Able to provide alternate approach recommendations along with associated tradeoffs / risks where appropriate.

- Technical Roadmap: Participates in refining the technical roadmap to evolve and mature systems and horizontals in accordance with architecture vision, strategy, and goals. Participate in researching new technologies, tools, and frameworks for potential adoption.

- Industry Knowledge: Keeps current on industry-standards and brings insights back to the team.

 
qualifications:
- Experience in architecting, designing and developing complex, cloud-native, scalable, performant and highly available distributed systems

- Expertise in microservice architectural patterns and design

- Expertise in Java/Spring Boot

- Expert-level understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, etc), SQL, and database/schema design

- Experience working with API management platforms (Apigee X)

- Experience with GCP and serverless compute platforms (e.g., Google Cloud Functions)

- Experience with message broker/event queue technologies (e.g. Rabbit, Kafka)

- Strong Computer Science fundamentals in OOAD, SOLID, design patterns, data structures, and algorithms

- Experience with TDD/BDD/DDD using JUnit, Cucumber etc.

- 6+ years of experience and expertise in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful API's.

- 10+ years of overall hands-on software engineering experience.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Experience / Skills:

- Experience with healthcare data standards (HL7, FHIR)

 
skills: - Be curious about technology. The software engineering industry is constantly changing and evolving.

- Learn and grow professionally. We strive for continuous improvement of our organization and our team members do the same. This comes from the path of constant learning, in addition to reflecting on past experiences for improvement opportunities.

- Always ready for change. A rolling stone gathers no moss, and neither do we. We accept that change is always around us, and our work is no exception. We navigate change through early and often communication; engage the ambiguous; promote diversity; accept new ideas; and lean on learning agility.

- Seek feedback. Feedback is important to us. We use it as a guide for our own development, and we build our software with feedback built into the process. It is incorporated into our software development lifecycle with design, code reviews, unit tests, and continuous integration. Feedback is also integrated into our solutions with application performance monitoring (APM) and usage analytics to help us learn methods to improve.

- Sound awareness of self and situations. We understand the importance of knowing our best selves, and the value gained from our teams to compensate for our shortcomings. Equally important is our ability to assess situations with a calm and clear mind, and develop next steps to proceed in the best manner possible.

- Demonstrate positivity. Our organization's focus is all about solving problems, and most of these problems are challenging. We try not to let that get in our way of thinking positively -- instead it's what motivates us to reach higher.

- Work with your team. We understand that our best work comes from working together. Our teams enjoy working together, sharing knowledge, helping, mentoring, and delivering our best for the communities we serve.

- Our core values are the standard that we hold ourselves to and a source of pride for us. We live by them. Our core values include: service of the poor; reverence; integrity; wisdom; creativity; and dedication.

Education:

- Computer Science Bachelor's degree or degree in related field of study.

- 10+ years working in software development, and 4 years of software architecture experience.



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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

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