Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fuelling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
As a trusted partner for intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Innovation and excellence run through our veins, and you will work with experts who are creating market-leading technologies, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and an advanced and sophisticated tech stack.
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Principal Software Engineer who thrives in a hands-on technical role with a focus on owning the quality of the code and systems they develop. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of features and systems, ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability throughout the development lifecycle. If you are committed to shipping reliable and scalable solutions, and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery.
- Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality.
- System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs.
- Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ Years Experience in the Focus Scope of Responsibility: Multiple Product
- Mentor all Engineering and Leadership
- Thought Leader in Area
- TypeScript & Node.js Expertise: Experience with TypeScript, including advanced types and type-checking techniques and strong understanding of Node.js runtime and ecosystem.
- Frontend Experience: Strong experience in building, designing, and front-end applications using JavaScript client side frameworks (Angluar, Vue, React)
- API Development: Skilled in designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Database Management: Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Asynchronous Programming: Familiarity with promises, async/await, and event-driven architecture.
- Testing and Debugging: Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Mocha) and debugging tools.
- Code Quality and Standards: Understanding of code linting, formatting, and adherence to best practices (e.g., ESLint, Prettier).
- Version Control: Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g., GitHub, GitLab).
- Cloud Services and Deployment: Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices design principles and implementation.
- Security Best Practices: Awareness of security standards, such as OAuth, JWT, and data encryption.
- Performance Optimization: Experience in optimizing code for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
- Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development practices, including Scrum and Kanban.
- Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to troubleshoot issues and optimize backend performance.
- Effective Communication: Capable of clearly communicating technical concepts to team members and stakeholders.
- Code Quality: Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following best practices such as TDD, unit testing, and code reviews.
- Problem Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down complex problems and design solutions that are scalable and maintainable.
Desired Qualifications:
- Ownership Mindset: Passion for taking full ownership of features and ensuring their quality from concept through to production.
- Performance and Optimization: Experience with profiling applications, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing performance for scale.
- Collaboration Skills: Comfortable working in a collaborative, Agile environment, with an emphasis on communication and team success.
Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance
- Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being
- A generous paid time off policy
At ABBYY you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 800+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With 30+ nationalities and ages ranging from 21 to 80, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins.
- Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.
- We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity. "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 30 years of experience in the technology market.
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK in our client portfolio.
- ABBYY has modernized the way companies leverage their data in documents by creating the first low-code/no-code Intelligent Document Processing platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a Marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process.
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
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What We Do
ABBYY puts your information to work. We help enterprises and organizations to transform their data into intelligent, actionable outcomes, so they can make smart decisions faster and drive better results.
Our intelligent automation solutions employ AI that is purpose-built for the enterprise—created with our customers in mind, supporting over 200 languages in real time.
ABBYY intelligent document processing transforms data from any document, in any format or language, any time, into data that drives processes and decision-making. ABBYY Process Intelligence delivers process-related insights and monitoring to improve business process execution.
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