Job purpose:
The Principal Developer drives the execution of the technical and architectural decisions made by the team, helping to problem solve and ensuring team members remain invested and collaborate. The Principal Developer often has to help coach developers and may dive into work e.g. helping to pair program or teaching new practices or onboarding a new developer.
Besides, Principal Developer role is analyzing and designing new IT solutions, modifying, enhancing, or adapting existing systems and integrating new features or improvements, all with the aim of improving business efficiency and productivity.
Major accountabilities:
Technical leadership
- Provide leadership to sub-team members and peers by collaborating with others, articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers, and others.
- Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing technical specification documentation, carry out necessary procedures to ensure the project goes live on schedule.
- Drive the resolution of issues and challenges, holding self and team accountable for results.
- Manage delivery of tasks within a given timeline, delegating work, and assignments to team members.
Resourcefulness
- Effective stakeholder and change management to ensure new technologies are effectively adopted.
- Handle multiple tasks and priorities effectively to ensure changing business needs and regulations/guidelines are fulfilled while driving products quickly to market.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage the squad team.
Build a High-Performing Team
- Analyze team performance and training of technical personnel.
- Build strong relationships between members.
- Identify key factors to meet long-term business strategy and propose adjustments if necessary.
Innovation
- Thinks out of the box and develops creative solutions to complex technical and digital platform problems.
- Continuously research, identifying business needs, determining, and carrying out necessary processes and practices and competitors in insurance industry.
- Propose new ways of working and/or improvements to have continuous efficiency improvements.
Delivery and maintenance
- Participate in estimating, planning, and implementing projects.
- Conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level, focusing on product deliverable, improving code quality of systems.
- Stay up to date with customer needs and strategies to optimize business expectations, ensure responsible platforms are operated effectively within limited of resources, promptly resolving any defects and have a quick recovery plan in every situation.
- Analysis to detect system vulnerabilities that need to be prioritized for fixing.
Specialized knowledge:
Technical skills:
- Applying for Backend development
- Proficient and hands on with Spring boot deployment
- Strong knowledge of ORM tool (Hibernate, JPA, ActiveMQ etc.)
- Strong knowledge of nosql database and relation database, specifically SQL Server, PostgreSQL
- Familiar with cloud solutions like AWS serverless (Step Functions, Lambda, Dynamo DB)
- Applying for Frontend development
- Proficient and hands on with ReactJS / Angular / Ionic
- Strong in UI design patterns
- Applying for Salesforce development
- A deep understanding and mastery of the Salesforce ecosystem, proficient and hands on with Salesforce deployment
- Strong experience developing applications on the Salesforce platform using Apex, Visualforce and other technologies
- Strong experience developing the Salesforce, Data model, CRM, Lead management, Automation process
- Strong knowledge of software development process, methodologies, test-driven development
- Strong knowledge in application architecture, design patterns
- Strong knowledge of web services (Restful, JSON, Soap)
- Strong knowledge in DevOps tools, K8s and CICD practices (source control e.g. Git, Bitbucket, SVN, Jira, Jenkins )
Soft skills:
- Problem solving
- Critical thinking
- Planning
- Coaching
- Embraces a culture of trust and complete transparency
- Promotes free thought and is energized by ideas from others in team
- Brave and rebellious, willing to challenge status quo
- English Conversation
Education and experience:
- University or college degree in IT or equivalent
- At least 1 years experience as a technical team leader
- At least 5 years experience in delivery and maintenance of application platforms by using advanced technology
