Principal Software Engineer - Java Backend

Strength in Trust OneTrust’s mission is to enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI. We believe that ensuring data is trusted shouldn’t slow teams down—it should accelerate what’s possible. This led us to develop the first technology platform for responsible data use in 2016. Today, with AI representing the latest and most impactful expansion of data yet, OneTrust is once again redefining what responsible innovation looks like. OneTrust, the AI‑Ready Governance Platform™, unifies regulatory intelligence, automation, and connected governance workflows so businesses can continue to move at the speed of AI while ensuring good governance to prevent data misuse at scale. Trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide, OneTrust is shaping the future where trusted data becomes a transformative force for business and society.

Principal Software Engineer – Backend

The Challenge

We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer with a passion for solving problems to join our agile Product Engineering team at OneTrust. Principal Software Engineers are responsible for developing, contributing to decisions related to design and architecture of new frontend and/or backend features while supporting existing development efforts for our industry-leading platform.

Your Mission Development

Support development of web and mobile interfaces for product module or new prototypes using HTML, CSS, JavaScript/Typescript and/or the designing, development, and unit testing of applications deployed to MS Azure while assisting with cloud application architecture using Drupal, Python, Core Java, REST, and the Spring ecosystem.

Achieve at least 80% code coverage or per the revised standards set by the team

Collaboration

Work closely with UX, Product Managers and/or Product Owners, as well as other developers to contribute to planning and grooming sessions and drive team’s discussions on system architecture and component design.

Support the team to ensure all committed stories for the sprint are completed per the sprint goal

Support

Work toward reducing total number of defects in the module/product to industry standards by catching and fixing issues early in development.

Ensure critical and high priority CII’s are delivered per SLA.

Code Review

Conduct peer reviews to improve code quality.

Help junior developers follow development testing, exploratory testing, AI testing and/or test automation.

Lead

Help build high-performing teams, grow and mentor the technical skills within the team and create development opportunities for them.

You Are A self-learner who is open to new technologies, processes, or techniques to improve your ability to deliver high-quality software. Someone who asks questions to clarify gaps in understanding.

Your Experience Includes Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical or business field.

8+ years of professional software engineering/development experience

Extensive hands-on experience and expertise in object-oriented design methodology and application development using Java/J2EE, Design Patterns, Spring MVC, SQL, Web services.

Experience with elastic search and data streaming tools like Kafka.

Good understanding of web services and SOA related standards like REST/OAuth/JSON.

A competent understanding of code and script (Python, Bash)

Moderate experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

Agile development (Scrum, XP, or Pair Programming) experience

Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services (Azure, Google Computer, or Amazon Web Services)

Recent development experience using Drupal, Ember, Angular 8+, Java 7+, or Python.

Familiarity with public cloud providers such as (Azure, Google Cloud, or AWS)

Extra Awesome Familiarity with different databases (Relational and document) is a strong asset.

Familiarity with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins.

Proficiency in Kubernetes, including cluster deployment, scaling, and management is highly desirable.

Where we Work

We are embracing an office-first culture, encouraging three days a week in office for most roles, with meaningful opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person.

Each role may have specific requirements or f…