Principal Engineer, Pricing

About the role

You will be part of a cross-functional teams of talented developers working together to create the best Sportsbetting experience in the world!

As a Principal Engineer you work across teams within a Pricing area, contributing to the teams' backlogs and taking on larger initiatives with other Principal Engineers. The Principal Engineer has a deep, strategic understanding of the product in their business area, and make technical decisions to solve business problems. Draw on relevant technical expertise to help guide engineering teams to create great products, remaining solution focused at all times.

This is a hands-on role, requiring strong software engineering skills including architecting, designing and developing Java and Python microservices, integrating 3rd party components and providing API's, to build up the entire sportsbetting experience. The data follows the customer's path, from checking the odds, placing a bet, and cashing out. Your expertise lies within Java development but there will be opportunities to technically support your colleagues in other technical domains as well.

Key accountabilities

Driving the technical roadmap for their business area, aligning with technical strategy

Providing technical leadership within the business area, working cross-functionally with teams in an agile environment

Ensuring performance and quality of deliveries across teams through guidance and mentoring

Working across the vertical in close collaboration with teams, other PEs, Domain architects, PELs and stakeholders

Providing expert knowledge of the business area in technical initiatives cross Kindred

Be a consultant early on for upcoming projects/initiatives

Supporting innovation and looking at new opportunities

Technical representative for their business area at appropriate platforms e.g. demos, geek sessions, meet-ups

Skills, knowledge and experience

Expert software design and coding skills - at least 10 years of hand-on experience

Outstanding problem solving and debugging skills

Wide business knowledge that supports building cross-team solutions right

Confident with solving complex architectural challenges, finding optimum solutions that can span across teams

Ability to rapidly appraise the technical landscape in a business area, understanding components, architecture and dependencies

Capable of understanding the technical strategy for all technical domains in their business area

Used to taking responsibility and driving change

Ability to present, share knowledge and best practices to stakeholders at all levels in the organization

You are a positive person by nature and have a passion for what you do, putting teamwork and collaboration above all else

We like to use

Microservices and microfrontends

Java, SpringBoot, Python, Javascript/TypeScript

Even driven architecture based on Kafka and Solace Queue

Restful API's, gRPC and socket-based API's

Relational and NoSQL databases

Docker and Kubernetes, Jenkins and ArgoCD

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

Best development practices

Agile and lean values