Lead Principal Application Software Engineer

Job summary

Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the application software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive application-focused improvements.

Qualifications

• Writes and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes.
• Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive improvements.
• Leads process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and/or products/services to drive improvements.
• Utilizes modern/emerging
• Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.
• Collaboration & Partnership:
• Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives.
• Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.
• Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.
• Problem Solving:
• Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues.
• Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.

Responsibilities

• Application Software Development:
• Architects and delivers multi-team features and modernization initiatives with clear, organization-level KPIs.
• Establishes global production-readiness standards (SLOs, error budgets, incident tooling) and drives adoption.
• Diagnoses and resolves high-severity, multi-system failures; creates systemic reliability improvements across apps/OCI.
• Harmonizes QA strategy across teams (test pyramids, non-functional testing) to ensure consistent app quality.
• Makes significant architectural decisions; leads migrations and pattern adoptions with deprecation plans.
• Creates scalable blueprints and reference implementations adopted by multiple teams.
• Defines cross-team API governance and dependency management frameworks.
• Shapes prioritization across multiple teams using data from field/customer, telemetry, and live-site signals.
• Institutionalizes feedback loops into planning cadences; measures impact.
• Mentors Staff engineers; partners with Product and Design to balance customer value and technical strategy.
• Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

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