Position: Senior Architect/Principal Engineer
Location: San Francisco

Details:
Senior Architect/Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

- Work with executives to understand and set goals for a specific
project

- Identify core engineering challenge(s) and formulate problem
statement

- Advise and sometimes lead the definition of scope and
requirements

- Create, evaluate and select options for technology design

- Oversees all aspects of implementation of projects, usually
carried out by remote engineering teams

- Work with engineering managers to estimate implementation effort
and staffing

- Create technical proposals and white papers for discussion with
decision makers

- Develop personal relationships with engineering teams and
customers

- Establish and maintain relationship network among industry peers.
Attend and contribute to technical conferences and associations.

- Coach and mentor junior engineers

- Assist with technical sales support

Requirements:

-  BA or MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related
field from a leading university

- Exceptional problem solving skills and intellectual curiosity

- 5-10 years of hands-on software engineering experience

- Track record of creating successful products or solutions (used
by customers)

- Love to write software, can assess code quality and programming
practices

- Ability to proactively identify engineering problems and
coordinate resolution

- Able to supervise work of others and delegate tasks

- Strong Java, C+, C++ or C# or .Net  skills

- Knowledge of basic administration of two out of three systems:
Linux/Windows/Solaris

- Knowledge of high-performance web or enterprise applications,
parallel processing or cloud computing strongly preferred

- Background in financial applications, ecommerce, or
infrastructures for high-traffic web commercial sites is a big plus

- Good interpersonal communication skills

- Passion for innovation and creative problem solving

What We Offer

- Work in the Bay Area with terrific customers on large, innovative
projects

- Amazing colleagues to work with, share and learn from

- High-energy atmosphere of a growing and successful company

- A very attractive compensation package with generous benefits and
profit sharing

Contact Information:
Please send your cover letter and resume to jobs AT griddynamics DOT com