Overview
The Principal Software Engineer will play a pivotal role in software development activities and long-term initiative planning and collaboration across the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) organization. Software Engineering is the corner stone of scalable digital transformation across PepsiCo’s value chain. This candidate will support the end-to-end software development experience and deliver high quality software as part of the DevOps process.
Responsibilities
- Support the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and applications (DPA) across S&T core priorities
- Hands-on development of in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit , BackEnd MicroServices, Python, Serverless Computing and REST API’S
- Partner with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio
- Support software development strategy utilizing industry standards. Create roadmap and timing of implementation of the roadmap based on business requirements and strategy.
- Support expanding DPA capabilities through a customer obsessed, services-driven digital solutions platform that leverages data and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences
- Help problem solve delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders
- Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business
Qualifications
A bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering or a related fieldMaster’s or PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred3+ years of experience on architecting fault tolerant, high scale distributed systems7+ years of Hand on experience in Java and Spring / SpringBoot ecosystem, JUnit , BackEnd3+ years of experience in Python developing applications and / or REST APIs-PreferredMicroServices, Serverless Computing, Rest APIsCommanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object oriented designWorking knowledge of programming languages beyond C#, Java, C or C++ ( Ruby, Python, Perl)Experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutionsExperience with mission critical, 24x7 systemsExperience with high throughput cloud native distributed systemsExperience implementing and consuming large-scale web servicesDeep knowledge of design patternsExperience with JavaScript / TypeScript, , React-Redux or other front-end frameworks-PreferredFull stack engineering experience