About the position
Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours. Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing. With a focus on customer-centric thinking, we're not just another vendor – we're a transformative force in the industry. By joining one of our Customer Excellence teams, you will have the chance to work with our portfolio of over 10,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies. We are looking for a passionate and skilled Principal Software Engineer who thrives in a hands-on technical role with a focus on owning the quality of the code and systems they develop. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of features and systems, ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability throughout the development lifecycle. If you are committed to shipping reliable and scalable solutions, and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery.
- Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives.
- Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality.
- Monitor the health and performance of services and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs.
- Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
- Drive decisions on difficult challenges with innovative ideas. Lead and influence entire product group with coaching and guidance.
Requirements
- 10+ Years Experience in the Focus Scope of Responsibility: Multiple Product
- Mentor all Engineering and Leadership
- Thought Leader in Area
- TypeScript & Node.js Expertise: Experience with TypeScript, including advanced types and type-checking techniques and strong understanding of Node.js runtime and ecosystem.
- Strong experience in building, designing, and front-end applications using JavaScript client side frameworks (Angular, Vue, React)
- Skilled in designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Familiarity with promises, async/await, and event-driven architecture.
- Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha) and debugging tools.
- Understanding of code linting, formatting, and adherence to best practices (e.g., ESLint, Prettier).
- Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g., GitHub, GitLab).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Understanding of microservices design principles and implementation.
- Awareness of security standards, such as OAuth, JWT, and data encryption.
- Experience in optimizing code for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
- Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
- Familiarity with Agile development practices, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Ability to troubleshoot issues and optimize backend performance.
- Capable of clearly communicating technical concepts to team members and stakeholders.
- Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following best practices such as TDD, unit testing, and code reviews.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems and design solutions that are scalable and maintainable.
Nice-to-haves
- Passion for taking full ownership of features and ensuring their quality from concept through to production.
- Experience with profiling applications, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing performance for scale.
Benefits
- Three week's paid time off on top of 13 paid holidays, floating holidays, and holiday allowance increase based on tenure
- Gym membership subsidy
- Medical and dental insurance
- Pet insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- College Savings Plan
- Travel assistance
- 401(k) with up to 4% employer match
