Principal Software Engineer

Are you…

Interested in working for an international and diverse company?

Interested in developing your career in a leading packaging and printing industry?

Looking for a friendly and supporting team?

If so, read on!

Esko, a Veralto company, is a global provider of integrated software and hardware solutions that accelerate the go-to-market process of packaged goods. Our products empower teams to support and manage the packaging design and print processes for brand owners, retailers, pre-media and trade shops, manufacturers, and converters to provide the most innovative, integrated platform and comprehensive portfolio of tools that intelligently digitize, connect, automate, and accelerate the concept to market processes for every packaged product.

You will be part of a flexible, family friendly organization that cares about its people just as it cares about the environment.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent.  Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is a key to innovation and excellence. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions.

The Principal Software Engineer - The Engineer will be responsible for technical strategy, designs organization-wide architecture, and multiplies the effectiveness of entire engineering teams rather than just writing individual code.

Responsibilities and Key Activities

• System Architecture: Design complex, scalable systems and define long-term technical roadmaps that span multiple teams or departments.
• Technical Leadership: Act as a force multiplier by unblocking teams, resolving deep ambiguities, and establishing coding and testing standards
• Mentorship: Coach senior and junior engineers to raise the technical capability of the organization
• Strategic Alignment: Bridge the gap between technical execution and business goals by consulting with stakeholders and upper management
• Build and maintain advanced software applications following industry standards.
• Implementing security best practices for Web Applications, ensuring robust protection and adherence to industry standards throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Design software architecture and provide technical guidance to the Backend Development Team, ensuring advanced applications are built and maintained in line with industry standards.
• Explore and implement the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including its influence on requirements gathering, coding, testing, and deployment processes, while ensuring adherence to best practices and industry standards.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, analyse user needs, and translate them into technical solutions.
• Write and maintain technical documentation, including design documents, user manuals, and release notes.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging activities to ensure software quality and performance.
• Research and stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, tools, algorithms, and best practices in software development.
• Ensure compliance with software development processes, standards, and security protocols
• SME in all the layers of the product technical stack
• Provide clear inputs and plan for the technical debts in various related products and take it to completion
• Focus on organizational business needs and not just technology aspects
• Drives critical organizational initiatives on Innovation and strategic objectives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in software development with expertise in programming languages Java and JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of software development methodologies, design patterns, system architecture, and industry best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers, provide technical leadership, and drive best engineering practices within the team.
• Substantial experience with implementing algorithms, ideally optimization problems or other challenging problem domains involving some amount of non-determinism
• Strong experience in designing, developing, and consuming RESTful APIs, including secure, scalable, and well-documented services.
• Proven expertise in Spring Framework, including **Spring Bo…