Principal Engineer

Everbridge: a fast-growing global provider of SaaS-based critical communications and enterprise safety solutions are currently seeking for a Principal Engineer to be based in our Bangalore office.
As a Technical Lead, you will provide a focus for technical decision making, and an identifiable leader for the team and wider product area and ensure the features are delivered to customers that help save lives. You will be a part of our integrated physical security platform with the mission to keep people safe and operations running faster.

What you'll do:

• Lead an agile cross-functional development team – designing, developing, testing features as a team.
• Working with Engineering Managers, Product Owners, Architects and QA Engineers the successful Technical Lead will share responsibility for feasibility, requirements, design, development, quality and delivery of the product features.
• To coach & mentor software engineers, encouraging best practices, standards and continuous improvement of practices & processes there by building a world-class engineering team.
• Developing our Windows based client and server solutions that integrate edge hardware devices into a situational aware platform for our customers. Examples of the different types of problems we ask the development team to solve:
• Displaying geospatially aware smart city data
• Displaying geospatial tracking data
• Saving video feed snapshots
• Dynamic near real-time event processing
• Video overlay integration
• Access control management
• Distributed site infrastructure management
• We primarily focus on .Net 4.5+ C# implementations and regularly integrate with functional library frameworks.
• We have continuous integration with TFS including unit testing, selenium-based GUI testing and static analysis.

What you'll bring:

• Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 8 years of experience as a professional software engineer (commercial/open source)
• At least 2 years of experience as a Principal Engineer/Lead Developer
• Brings a range of software development and delivery experience
• Experience leading a cross-functional agile development team
• Interest in solving complex problems that help keep people safe
• Want to design solutions and can explain it across skill levels
• Eager to own feature work and be involved in the detail of across a feature’s lifecycle
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Stack (C# .Net 4.5+, .Net Core, SQL Server) Skills and sustained experience in WPF and WCF Services, particularly in multi-threaded/multi-node environments
• Strong experience on Windows platforms (Desktop and Servers)
• Experience in large code-base products or enterprise grade software

Nice to have:

• Previous experience managing a development team
• Strong API Design Experience
• Hardware integration/API experience
• NOSQL experience
• Experience using Containers (Docker)
• Jira and Confluence
• Experience with concurrent distributed systems
• Experience with SIL standards
• Web development experience, particularly with MVVM based frameworks and JavaScript frameworks (React.js, Angular)
• Interest or experience in near real time computing/communication
• Full stack development experience