"Principal Software Engineer"

The Company - ShawAcademy.com Design and technology are at the forefront of our focus to deliver the best, live, online education on the planet. As the largest provider, we must deploy complex engineering solutions, while being in a groundbreaking sector of education requires innovation in UI/UX, graphical and interaction design. We're always looking for the best candidates and love to work with the most technically strong and most creatively minded individuals.   The Position We are building the next generation platform for delivering education and training on-line. Hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), this platform needs to offer webinar capabilities that can scale at a global level.    This role will suit an ambitious, hardworking and highly driven individual who has a proven track record of delivering high quality products. Come and be part of this dynamic team we are building in Bangalore with a great opportunity to work with the latest technology and a great deal of creative freedom.   We like to work in small teams so any work you do will have a massive impact on the business!     Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities: We're looking for passionate, creative developers who are excited about solving new problems. As a Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for the full stack of development; you'll work with everything from front-end HTML, CSS and JS (AngularJS) to server-side PHP and several different data stores including MongoDB and Elasticsearch, as well as take on agile project management responsibilities.     What you'll do: Lead an agile team of 5-7 software developers and QA engineers Work with the team and the product owner to define a prioritised backlog of stories that the team will tackle during a given sprint Work closely together with other teams to ensure a stable and reliable product Be fully hands-on in terms of writing code and participating in software development projects Play an active role in developing new features for a high performance, scalable web platform Assess and communicate how your work impacts business and other systems Monitor teams progress and take ownership of removing any impediments that slow the team down Mentor people on the team and help them improve their game   Skills & Experience Required: A recognised third-level degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar  You have a minimum of 8 years of hands-on software development experience You have experience with coding in more than one programming language, e.g. Python, C, C++, C#, Java, Ruby, JavaScript or PHP Experience with AngularJS, MongoDB and PHP (Laravel 4) is a plus but not required You are an open source fanatic You have a sound understanding of programming fundamentals and their application to highly scalable web based systems You have successfully led a small agile team   Salary / Remuneration: Competitive basic salary in addition to a generous, uncapped commission structure Opportunity to join a rapidly expanding technology-based firm with a foundation of real talent, and work with real innovators whilst achieving ones own goals.