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Whatās Unique About You Is What Makes Us Better! Diversity is our strength and competitive advantage. Bring your flavor to the Papa John's team today!
Job Summary
The Principal Engineeris responsible for leading a product team and contributing to software design,āÆdevelopment, and overall product lifecycle for a product that our customers love. In addition to pairing with other engineers and architects, principal engineers field questions from other product teams and encourage cross-team collaboration. They also play an active role working with third party vendors and with open-source software community. They create foundational code elements that can be reused. They define software level objectives for products. You will be an extremely knowledgeable engineer on the product team and are expected to build and grow the skillsets of the more junior engineers. You are action oriented, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm. You consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances. There is also an expectation that the Principal Engineer will demonstrate expertise in modern software design and development.
Duties and Responsibilities
70% - Delivery and Execution:āÆĀ
Build rapid prototypes to explore viability of solutions fit to product strategy and upon alignment from stakeholders scale the solution and productionize itāÆāÆĀ
Identifies, implements, and shares technical solutions that can be used across the organizationāÆĀ
Identifies unsecured code areas and implements fixes as they are discoveredāÆĀ
Identifies product enhancements (client-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end usersāÆĀ
Collaborates with Enterprise Architects and with Chief Architecture Owners and creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested partiesāÆĀ
Contributes to enterprise-wide tools to drive destructive testing, automation, or engineering empowermentāÆĀ
Defines service level objectives for product to constantly measure their reliability in production and help prioritize backlog workāÆāÆĀ
Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test casesāÆĀ
Writes custom code or scripts to do ādestructive testingā to ensure adequate resiliency in productionāÆĀ
Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactivelyāÆāÆĀ
Identifies product enhancements (customer-facing or technical) to create a better experience for the end usersāÆĀ
Creates meaningful architecture diagrams and other documentation needed for security reviews or other interested partiesāÆāÆĀ
20% - Support and Enablement:āÆĀ
Field questions from other product teams or support teamsāÆāÆĀ
Monitors tools and participates in conversations to encourage collaboration across product teamsāÆāÆĀ
Provides application support for software running in productionāÆāÆĀ
Proactively monitors production and lower life cycle environments service level objectives for productsāÆāÆĀ
Works with vendors and open source community to help identify and implement feature enhancements in software productsāÆĀ
Works with other product teams to create API specifications and contracts for shared dataāÆāÆĀ
Proactively reviews the performance and capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processingāÆāÆĀ
Triages high priority issues and outages as they ariseāÆāÆĀ
Conducts technical interviews of job applicants and contractors to evaluate their skillsāÆāÆĀ
10% - Learning:āÆĀ
Participates in and leads learning activities around modern software design and developmentāÆĀ
Learns, through reading, tutorials, and videos, new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizationsāÆāÆĀ
Attends conferences and learns how to apply new technologies where appropriateĀ
Everybody loves pizza, which means they also love the people who are behind the scenes working to deliver it. This is complex and challenging work ā but letās face it ā itās also pizza! If you want a fulfilling career with a company thatās always moving forward, weāre the right place.
Papa John's is a Federal Contract employer who participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility for each new team member. For more information please view the following PDFs:Ā E-Verify Poster (English)Ā -Ā Right to Work Poster (English)Ā -Ā E-Verify Poster (Spanish)Ā - Right to Work Poster (Spanish) Papa John's is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information please click on the followingĀ PDF. SeeĀ terms & conditionsĀ for site use.
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