About Virtasant

Virtasant is a global technology services company with a network of over 4,000 technology professionals across 130+ countries. We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.

About the role

Our client is a US-based technology company focused on driving the next generation of vehicle and mobile technologies.

For them, we’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer.

What You’ll Do

• Design, develop, and maintain logical designs of mission-critical enterprise application systems and services that leverage RESTful services and serverless architecture. 

• Ensure that application and service designs align with our client's strategic technology direction and mission. 

• Recommend strategies to improve system applications and services with a focus on ease of deployment, security, reliability, stability, availability, and performance. These include:

  • Independently analyze and resolve production problems, assessing risk and alternatives as appropriate, and implementing pragmatic roadmaps that lead to durable solutions.

  • Evaluate and interpret requirements to design, develop, and implement appropriate capabilities.

  • Perform code reviews, identifying potential issues to reduce technical debt, and providing coding best practice recommendations.

  • Take ownership of tasks and deliver with limited supervision, while using your own discretion to seek help when necessary.

  • Inspire and mentor your engineering colleagues – especially junior engineers in your charge.

  • Continually champion improvement by identifying ways to raise the quality bar of the team, systems, and organization around you.
    

Key Outcomes

• Deliver products/systems through their full life cycle, from idea conception, technical planning, implementation, launch, measurement, and maintenance/iteration.

• Contribute to developing a strong culture of quality, availability, and security through attention to detail and by supporting industry-leading best practices.

• Drive optimal solution design, collaborating with product owners, architects, operations, client services, and cross-functional teams to move fast on creating solutions to client and business problems, as well as identifying and acting on new opportunities.

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Experience

• BS degree in CS, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent practical experience

• Experience building large, complex systems, particularly web services, RESTful APIs, and continuous integration and delivery.

• 10+ years of software application development and design experience.

• Proficient in Python, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS,

• C#/Java Experience.

• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.

• Prior experience collaborating with Product Managers and Owners.

• Experience in creatin g database schemas that represent and support business processes,

• Experience with one or more of the following databases - PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB, DynamoDB.

• Familiarity with AWS or Azure

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with microservice and serverless architectures.

• Experience with  Angular.

• Deep understanding and practical experience implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, including extensive use of tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.
  
  

Our recruitment process

• Recruiter Screen (30 min)

• Technical Interview (30 min)

• Client Interview I (tech interview 1 h)

• Client Interview II (tech interview 1h)

• Client Interview III (comm & collab interview w/ Dir of Eng. 30 min)

• Client Interview IV (comm & collab interview w/ Sr. Product Manager 30 min)

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

What we offer

• Totally remote, full-time (40h/week)

• EST work hours

• Long-term, solid independent contractor agreement

• Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice.