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Job Title: Principal Engineer - Java
Location: Bangalore
Business & Team: BB Tech - Payments
Impact & Contribution: Apply core concepts, technology and domain expertise to effectively develop software solutions to meet business needs. You will contribute to building the brighter future for all by ensuring that our team builds the best solutions possible using modern development practices that ensure both functional and non-functional needs are met. If you have a history of building a culture of empowerment and know what it takes to be a force multiplier within a large organization, then you’re the kind of person we are looking for.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Adopt a ‘Design to Run’ mentality to architect robust solutions that are fully supportable in a production environment
Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, and mentoring of senior engineers.
Champion DevSecOps practices and continuous delivery pipelines.
Provide developmental advice and consult for business case/ideation, discovery, inception and enhancement requests by examining current vs target architectures ensuring align with ES strategy and architecture standards
Work with senior technical and business management teams in identifying issues of current state architecture, developing target state architecture with the ability to communicate the features and benefits
Effectively lead and influence business partners, peers, team members and vendors
Effectively challenges business leaders to obtain the best technology solutions and fit with ES strategy
Essential Skills:
14+ years of experience in software engineering; 3+ years in a Principal Engineer or Staff Engineer role.
Demonstrated technical leadership in engineering teams and across tools and technologies.
Strong risk mindset with the ability to identify, discuss, and act on risks.
Applied AI/ML experience, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Model Control Protocols (MCP), Generative AI and Agentic AI, Engineering-focused AI tools (e.g., CoPilot)
Cloud & Infrastructure: - AWS Lambda, API Gateway, EKS, Fargate, VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, Load Balancer, IAM Roles & Policies, Beanstalk, Workspaces, VM Hosting; Serverless architecture; Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
Programming Languages: - TypeScript, Java, Python, C#
Databases: - AWS Aurora, RDS, Redis, ElasticCache, Oracle
Messaging & Eventing: - SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Kafka (MKS)
CI/CD & DevOps: - GitHub, GitLab Actions, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, TeamCity, Jenkins, SonarQube/Cloud, Snyk
Observability & Monitoring: - OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Observe, CloudWatch, Splunk/ObservInc, AppDynamics, CloudWatch Canary
Security: - Vault, AWS Certificate Manager, AWS Secrets Manager, Security Management, Automation Suite, and Secret Manager
Engineering Practices: - TDD, BDD, Test Automation Frameworks, Deployment methodologies, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
System Design: - Microservices architecture, Event-driven systems, API design, Data-intensive application design, technical debt management
Payments & Standards (Preferred):- ISO 20022, SWIFT, BIAN, NPP
Education Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in Engineering in Computer Science/Information Technology.
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