Principal Software Engineer

We do this by building best-in-class API’s, embeddable web components and custom solutions so our customers can use deep credit data insights to improve their business and user experience. Founded by engineers — and customer obsessed — we leap at every opportunity to solve technical challenges, from creating a new language that will allow people to effectively and securely interact with highly confidential credit data to designing a solution that allows us to effectively deploy any component across multiple digital banking platforms with minimal setup. And we're only getting started.

The Principal Software Engineer at Array will bring foundational knowledge in software engineering and lead our engineering teams to solve the biggest problems and challenges that we’re facing. You will work with business and technology leaders to understand the holistic business strategy and then design and execute against technical strategies for delivery. This position will report to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and work across all products at Array. 

You Will:

• Provide ongoing technical problem solving both in depth and at as priorities emerge in order to successfully support business needs
• Conceptualize and deliver large software systems independently with minimal design goals and guidance
• Closely partner with our general managers in the design and review of roadmaps for all domains including proof-of-concepts, and determine operational gaps and develop methods for improvement 
• Be and expert in RESTful APIs, microservices, cloud technologies, and databases 
• Spend 75-90% of your time coding
• Establish and maintain relationships and broad knowledge of the businesses, product, and technologies across the organization

You Have:

• Advanced degree in computer science, computer engineering, IT, systems engineering, or related qualification
• 10 years of professional software development experience
• Strong ability and passion for conceptualizing ideas to solution problems, communicating the ‘why’ behind those solutions and then building the solutions
• 10 years of experience in working with product and technical managers to coordinate the development and delivery of proof-of-concepts
• 10 years experience in researching, composing, delivering and defending technical presentations to audiences of varying size
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments & a broad understanding of security hardening policies to prevent against cyber exploitation
• Experience with containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with our specific technology stack is preferred but not required:
  • RESTful API written in Golang and Node.js, Svelte for front end theming, microservices running on K8s engine @GCP. Horizontally scaling CockroachDB + MS SQL Server, Terraform as IaC