Principal Software Engineer

Opportunity

Are you an innovative and experienced Software Engineer with deep hands-on technical skills and a passion for developing other engineers? Are you a pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into workable technical solutions utilizing new technologies?

The Service Delivery Platform is offering an exciting and attractive career in an ambitious and competitive environment, with the possibility of continuous professional and personal development. We are hiring anywhere in the UK or Denmark!

WE OFFER

Service Delivery Platform is focused on streamlining, optimizing, and automating container operations via advanced software solutions. You will join one of our portfolios and will work collaboratively with others to build the digital backbone of our global container logistics business.

As Principal Software Engineer, you have the opportunity to take a central part in designing and implementing high value software products for our business. You will be part of a strong engineering team working together to build highly resilient, available, performant, and maintainable software. There are a lot of challenging and interesting problems ahead, and through close collaboration with both business and technology you will be a key part of that journey.

The Service Delivery Platform is a geographically distributed initiative, with world-class engineering teams in Denmark (Copenhagen), Spain (Algeciras), and India (Bangalore, Pune), and end users and stakeholders situated all over the globe - you will be part of this international and diverse organization consisting of highly talented and motivated people from across the world.

Key responsibilities

• Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for Service Delivery. Ability to anticipate and prevent future problems. Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward user-centric solutions.
• Collaborate with other principal engineers, architects and scrum teams for the design, implementation, and deployment of successful cross-platform projects for the next generation Service Delivery’s technology strategy.
• Work with the VP Engineering to define the tech transformation design and approach, including principles and guardrails (in alignment with EA frameworks).
• Connect teams with the capabilities & technologies needed for the platform. Ability to find innovation opportunities between multiple teams with a willingness to experiment and to boldly confront problems. Guide conversations to remove blockers and encourage collaboration. Act as point of escalation for scrum teams facing complex technical challenges.
• Mentor / Coach Lead Senior engineers. Make the whole team better by advocating for best practices within team and across organization. Establish design patterns and technologies and drive engineering excellence. Ensure teams are solving for NFRs (performance, scale, resilience, quality) before implementing.
• Assist directly and indirectly in the continual hiring and development of technical talent. Help interviewers improve our ability to attract and retain technical talent

We are looking for you if:
You are innovative and experienced with deep hands-on technical skills and a passion for developing other engineers. You have credibility with your peers and other engineers look up to you.

You are a pragmatic visionary who can translate business needs into workable technical solutions. You are a recognized expert of both breadth and depth in multiple technology domains relevant to Maersk.

You are hands-on, producing both detailed technical software work and high-level designs with the ability to engage with all stakeholders.

With your world class collaboration skills, you are the link between multiple technology platforms, and you leverage key relationships to ensure alignment of technical direction. With your design excellence and architectural expertise, you can translate highly complex problems into simple solutions with real-world application.

You balance risk with value when driving technology transformation and you will guide our teams through complex technology shifts without disrupting the business.

Preferred Qualifications:
We're looking for someone outstanding, someone who has the following experiences and has clearly demonstrated many of these skills:

• Ability to communicate complex messages, constructively challenge Product Owners and related stakeholders. Ability to distill informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives. Ability to quantify improvement in customer experience or value for the business resulting from outcomes.
• Enterprise strategic thinking in a complex environment with large degree of ambiguity. Demonstrated ability to pull together diverse individuals with different goals and facilitate productive discussions.
• Proven track record of design and building platforms/applications/Services in a large, distributed scale.
• 12+ years of experience of technology transformation with large enterprises; focused on distributed computing, application microservices and scalable, cloud-native implementations
• Several years as hands-on senior level software development engineer. Design and execution of complex projects, within secure by design, micro-services and event driven architectures that power web platforms and mobile applications.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and adapting existing technical and solutions architecture to meet the needs of an evolving business. Knowledge of contemporary technology stacks and the ability to drive adoption/transformation decisions. Technical Implementations that support architectural changes to solve scaling, performance, and multi-cloud deployment needs.
• Ability to flag team dysfunction at a technical or iterative development level. Act as mentor to help engineers level up.
• A solid understanding of agile system development at Enterprise level.
• Drive automation in test, integration, deployment, and support.
• Advanced to expert knowledge of structured programming languages like Java or C#, sharing design patterns and principles like SOLID, OOP, etc. Experience with web application frameworks. Experience with relational and NoSql data stores and search engines. Experience with building or adopting orchestration layers.
• Experience working with security teams and strong understanding of industry standard security protocols.
• Experience negotiating and designing modern APIs. Experience establishing, evolving and evangelizing API standards including adoption of contemporary methods such as graphQL.
• Working knowledge of building cloud-agnostic or multi-cloud enabled applications.

As a performance-oriented company, we strive to always recruit the best person for the job – regardless of gender, age, nationality, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are proud of our diversity and see it as a genuine source of strength for building high-performing teams.