ABOUT THE POSITION

The Principal Software Engineer designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and supports software solutions. Ensures quality, security, privacy, reliability, availability, maintainability, performance, compatibility, and integrations of solutions throughout. Advances the team's technical foundation to deliver contemporary, simple, and secure solutions, and raises the engineering skills within the squad. Scope of delivery is for a single squad.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Responsible for design, development, testing, maintenance, monitoring, and support of a platform or application. Maintains thoughtful application design that promotes reuse, portability, and ease of code maintenance. Builds subject matter expertise in the business area that the platform or application supports. Leads with high autonomy the execution and utilization of reference implementations, best practices, frameworks and standards, and architectural and design decisions within a squad. Notifies technical stakeholders of technical or functional changes.




Contributes to the team's backlog to capture work that promotes the team's mission and advances the team's technical foundation. Partners with teammates to refine the product backlog. Partners with peer Engineers and the Product Owner to lead the team in breaking down larger bodies of work (epics) into smaller, well-understood items (stories) that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Ensures stories have clearly understood value and defined acceptance criteria. Communicates with key partners and dependent squads to understand scope of planned work. Partners with Product Managers in the domain to inform prioritization, identify dependencies, and influence the product roadmap. Generates stories for backlog to address performance, non-functional requirements, tech debt, modernization, and simplification.
Participates in team's agile ceremonies, including daily stand-up, backlog refinement, planning, review/demo, and retrospecti

📌 Principal Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Columbia Sportswear
📍 Bengaluru