Job Description – Principal Engineer

Location: Pune, India

Experience: 12+ Years

About the Role

We are seeking a highly accomplished Principal Engineer with deep product engineering expertise to lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable, high-performance enterprise-grade applications. This role requires strong hands-on capability in C#/.NET and/or Java ecosystem, along with the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities
- Define and drive overall system architecture and engineering strategy
- Lead design and development of complex, scalable product platforms
- Provide hands-on technical leadership in C#/.NET Core and/or Java (Spring Boot, Microservices)
- Establish best practices in software engineering, code quality, security, and performance optimization
- Mentor Staff and Senior Engineers; elevate overall engineering standards
- Collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, DevOps, and QA teams
- Drive cloud-native adoption (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)




- Ensure robust CI/CD pipelines and DevOps maturity
- Make critical technical decisions impacting long-term product scalability

Required Skills & Qualifications
- 12+ years of strong product engineering experience
- Deep expertise in C#/.NET Core and/or Java (Spring Boot, Hibernate, Microservices)
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, system design, and scalable architectures
- Experience building SaaS or enterprise-grade products
- Expertise in REST APIs, event-driven architecture, and messaging systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ)
- Experience with relational and NoSQL databases
- Strong cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Proven ability to lead large technical initiatives
- Solid stakeholder communication skills

Preferred
- Experience with domain-driven design (DDD)
- Exposure to performance tuning and large-scale systems
- Prior experience in high-growth product organizations

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