Principal Engineer
Infinite Reality, United States
Job Description
At Infinite Reality, Principal Engineers are both visionary leaders and hands-on builders. As Infinite Reality’s most senior individual contributors, Principal Engineers work on our hardest problems. Principal Engineers are asked to venture beyond comfortable approaches to pioneer new spaces, and inspire others as to what’s possible.
We are looking for architects and hands-on builders, who are highly attuned to the technical realities of building and operating high-scale systems for services and data. A Principal Engineer should have strong technical judgment and influential skills to facilitate discussions for business-critical designs. The perfect candidate will be able to operate at the Director, VPs and the c-suite level as a key technical adviser. They should be able to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction while nurturing a continuous delivery culture and mentoring engineers.
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:
- Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
- Invent fundamentally new technologies in the immersive space
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
- Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
- Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. You are a visionary leader, builder and an operator.
- Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience launching (at least 1) from concept to general availability of a SaaS product.
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, designing massive global networks.
- Experience building 3D software (games or otherwise)
- Mobile application development experience on both iOS and Android
- Expertise in web application development