Principal Software Engineer at Fastmarkets

The Role This is a great opportunity to join the Fastmarkets Software Engineering Team to help continue grow our technology and build a highly skilled team that will enable us to accelerate our product delivery and scale our business. This team develop, enhance and support our flagship digital platform, serving global customers with critical price data, news and analytics in the commodities markets we serve. We make this data and intelligence easily accessible through multiple channels including web, desktop, API, Excel and mobile iOS and Android applications, enabling customers to integrate our digital offering into their business workflows. The Principal Software Engineer is a full-time position working within a Scrum team reporting to the Engineering Manager. In this technical role working as part of a global a team of Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Product Managers to successfully develop and deliver new features. This includes contributing to major projects that make a difference to Fastmarkets customers both in our existing markets such as metals, forest products and agricultural commodity sectors. Our technical stack is largely Microsoft .NET and cloud infrastructure is Azure and we seek to use the latest relevant technologies in our work. It is engineered for scalability and fault-tolerance with rich web and mobile UIs. In this hands-on development role, you will be a senior member of the development team reporting to an Engineering Manager. As a Principal Engineer you will also be expected to contribute to the strategic and technical direction within the team to which you aligned. You will be a highly productive developer who is passionate about writing clean, quality code, building high-scale distributed systems that are fault-tolerant, with deep operational insights. You will take an engineering approach to developing new services and systems, favouring metrics over personal opinion or bias. You will have good communication skills and be able to mentor and help grow more junior developers, coaching them on good design, coding and software engineering practices. This is an individual contributor role, where you will be providing technical leadership. Principal Accountabilities 1. Responsible for guiding coding best practice 2. Deliver high quality, performant code to SOLID design principals 3. Provide mentorship and guidance for more junior engineers 4. Contribute to overall strategic technical direction KEY INTERFACES · Engineering Manager · Software Engineering Team · Cloud Engineering and SRE · Enterprise Architect · Product Owners / Product Management