Principal Software Engineer

Why is this role important to Field Nation?

This Principal Software Engineer /Architect will have the opportunity to impact our Field Nation product by creating and designing new features, delivering on the product roadmap releases, and working collaboratively across the organization to continuously build up our product. This critical position will be a key member of a new product offering. You will participate in the discovery, definition, and delivery of this offering. This position will also offer the chance to work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where new innovative ideas are encouraged and collaboration is a must. This position is located in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and reports to the Director of Engineering.

What You'll Get To Do:

• Demonstrate technical excellence resulting in scalable, reliable, performant, and maintainable services
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of microservices, containerization, serverless, SQL, and no-SQL databases, data modeling and analytics, caching, security, REST APIs, build automation, test automation, and infrastructure automation.
• Utilize experience with building, maintaining, and supporting large-scale software solutions in an AWS serverless environment or with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with API consumers on requirements and solutions
• Write high-quality code and tests following test-driven design principles
• Work within an agile framework to continuously deliver quality software in a fast-paced environment
• Assist in the operation of the service, e.g., monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and troubleshooting
• Participate in code reviews to ensure new code conforms to the highest standards
• Mentor and pair with other engineers to help them reach their potential

Additional Job Details:

• Skill Set: Advanced individual contributor with strong skill set
• Expertise / Domain Knowledge: Subject Matter Expert for product engineering.
• Technology knowledge: Deep knowledge in most technologies used in the product; knowledge of additional technological trends. Aware of Emerging Trends in the Industry Domain.
• Tasks / Work Complexity: Highly complex and important to the organization
• Software Development Assignments: Contribute to product architecture decisions
• Contribution Impact / Value to the Organization: Failure would result in a significant impact to the organization
• Supervision Needs: No supervision is needed
• Latitude for independent judgment: Extensive latitude. May assist less experienced peers
• Mentoring: Mentor less experienced peers. Provide additional leadership in engineering best practices.

You Might Be a Good Fit If You Have:

• 10+ years of relevant experience with progressive levels of responsibility
• Significant experience with high-throughput, low-latency, highly available, self-healing systems
• Ability to work effectively with different product delivery disciplines, including product management, user experience, data, test and integration, and site reliability.
• Broad technical knowledge – we look for people who can tie together technologies to solve really big problems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well with others as part of a team and across teams.
• Ability to break down larger initiatives into manageable pieces.
• Experience working with offshore teams is a plus.

Additional Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, etc.).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, etc.).
• Experience with Microservice architecture (Containers, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Backend web experience with languages such as PHP, JavaScript, Node JS, Golang, etc.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, React, and Redux.
• Ability to supervise engineers to write clean, standards-compliant code.
• Strong focus and experience in Software Engineering best practices.
• Ability to break down more significant initiatives into manageable pieces.
• Experience in organizational development and change management.
• Experience in mentoring tech leads.
• Experience working with offshore teams.
• Experience facilitating communication and collaboration across diverse cultural backgrounds (US, etc.).

Educational And Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in engineering, computer science, or related technical field.
• 10+ years working as part of a software engineering team.
• 4+ years of additional experience of acting as a software engineering architect /lead.
• Experience in mentoring engineers (preferred).

Work Schedule and Location:

• Working days: Hybrid Monday to Friday (3 Work from Home + 2 mandatory Work from Office days)
• Working hours: 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM
• Location: Uttara 12, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Salary Range:

• BDT 280, ,000 (Monthly)

Other Benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience and qualification.
• Mobile bill
• Festival Bonus
• Gratuity benefit
• Medical Insurance
• Profit Sharing Bonus
• Gym Membership
• Career Development Budget
• Sound work-life balance - Regular working hours: 8 hours/day, 5 days a week.
• Friendly work environment.
• Flexible leave/vacation policy.
• A great learning opportunity.
• The opportunity to work with cross-cultural teams in the US.
• Annual performance evaluation and increment.
• Employee Transportation Facility: Drop Off

Why Field Nation?

At Field Nation, we are breaking the barriers to work and enabling the gig economy. We're a tech company that offers a web-based marketplace solution for buyers and sellers of contract services to simply connect, work, and manage their business. We look for collaborators, innovators, and problem solvers to join us in our common purpose of changing the way work gets done. We were named a Top Workplace by the Star Tribune in 2017, 2018, 2019, and a Top 150 Workplace in 2020. We look to hire extraordinary people and provide them extraordinary benefits.