Solera
Principal Software Engineer
Westlake, Texas · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
JavaSpringCode ReviewGitSQLPostgreSQLVector DatabasesAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsRESTKafkaRabbitMQLLMsRAGAgentic AIResearchLeadershipProblem SolvingMentoring
About the role
- A Principal Software Engineer's roles include providing technical leadership, defining software architecture, mentoring other engineers, and overseeing projects from conception to completion.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and strategic guidance across teams on design, development, and implementation.
- Build reliable systems that integrate large language models into our products
- Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment between technical strategy and product goals.
- Conduct architectural reviews, lead PoCs, and evaluate emerging technologies to meet evolving business needs.
- Architect and implement end-to-end software solutions with a focus on scalability, resilience, and performance.
- LLM Skills: Hands-on experience building AI agents with Large Language Models (LLMs), including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), as well as tuning models.
- Best Practices: TDD, CI/CD, design patterns, code quality, security, observability
- Object oriented design principles (SOLID), design patterns, enterprise integration patterns, Microservice architecture
- Familiarity with non-functional software qualities (resilience, maintainability, etc), and experience implementing related design patterns and analysing trade-offs
- Architectural design: Lead the architectural design of complex, scalable, and high-performance software systems.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with construction of complex engineering solutions and knowledge of software development methodologies
- 12+ years of experience
Skills
- LLM Model: Apt with GPTs, Llama, or any other LLM using frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph.
- Knowledge of vector databases, memory systems, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
- AI Tools:Hands-on with AI-driven development tools, intelligent code assistance, and workflow automation.
- Languages & Frameworks: Strong programming background on Java, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, JPA, Hibernate
- Architecture: Microservices, REST, Domain-driven design, Event-driven architecture
- Queues & Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar message brokers
- Databases: PostgreSQL, advanced SQL, data modelling, query tuning
- Build & Deployment: Gradle, Git, Docker, Kubernetes
- Cloud & DevOps: Cloud-native development (AWS), containerization, monitoring tools
- Technical leadership and expertise
Benefits
- Define the technical vision and roadmap for software development, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Deep dive on large-scale SaaS products and be prepared to assist architecture with setting the vision, organizing and evolving the code-base for the entire product
Equal opportunity
- SOLERA HOLDINGS, INC., AND ITS US SUBSIDIARIES (TOGETHER, SOLERA) IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. THE FIRM'S POLICY IS NOT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE BASED ON RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, MARITAL STATUS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, AND GENETIC INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER BASIS PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. THE FIRM ALSO PROHIBITS HARASSMENT OF APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES BASED ON ANY OF THESE PROTECTED CATEGORIES.
- SOLERA HOLDINGS, INC., AND ITS US SUBSIDIARIES (TOGETHER, SOLERA) IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
- THE FIRM'S POLICY IS NOT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY APPLICANT OR EMPLOYEE BASED ON RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, NATIONAL ORIGIN, GENDER, AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY OR EXPRESSION, MARITAL STATUS, MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DISABILITY, AND GENETIC INFORMATION, OR ANY OTHER BASIS PROTECTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
- THE FIRM ALSO PROHIBITS HARASSMENT OF APPLICANTS OR EMPLOYEES BASED ON ANY OF THESE PROTECTED CATEGORIES.
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