Description:

Business Wire, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is seeking an experienced full-stack Principal Software Engineer to lead the engineering design and development for an architecture modernization effort for their press release processing system.
The role involves a complete rebuild of the back office system, transitioning from a legacy architecture to a modern, serverless technology stack, a new database platform, and a new REST API platform.
Responsibilities include developing engineering design and documentation for multiple components of the system, focusing on reliability, performance, and maintainability.
The engineer will provide technical leadership and contribute directly to the code base using modern technology stacks, particularly serverless platforms.
The position requires leading the development of proof of concepts (POCs) and contributing to the design of development environments, usage guidelines, and SDLC best practices.
The engineer will tackle a variety of technical problems throughout the stack and collaborate with product managers, designers, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to develop complex systems.
Responsibilities also include performing code reviews, monitoring the implementation of engineering designs, identifying performance bottlenecks, and suggesting operational improvements.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 15+ years of relevant hands-on programming experience.
Technical leadership experience is required, specifically leading 6-10 engineers on projects lasting over 6 months.
Expert-level knowledge in modern programming languages and their ecosystems is necessary, including JavaScript, React.js, Node.js, Java, Python, or similar.
Extensive experience in cloud platform architectures is required, with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Expertise in various database and data retrieval technologies, including Relational, NoSQL, and GraphQL, is essential.
Excellent communication skills are a must.
Strong skills in developing engineering designs and related documentation are required.

The position offers the ability to work remotely.
Excellent health benefits begin on the first day of employment.
Employees receive a $100 monthly fitness allotment, a tuition reimbursement program, and enhanced mental health resources.
A 401(k) plan with a generous company match and annual profit-sharing contribution (subject to company performance) is included.
Paid time off (PTO), Floating Holidays, a Wellness Day Off, a Birthday Day Off, and more are provided.