Principal Software Engineer (Front End technologies)
National Grid
Waltham, Massachusetts
Job Description
About us
Come be a part of driving National Grid’s digital transformation! We are digital creators, continuous learners and daring innovators.
We leverage digital innovative ways to create products and catalyze the transformation of National Grid's business units into more agile and digitally native organizations in our shared purpose of bringing energy to life. We need you
Job Purpose
What you'll do
- Supports product teams to understand and resolve critical technical issues in almost any engineering product
- Creates complex architectural designs that can be understood and implemented by all engineering product teams
- You will be seen as an influencer and leader with front end technologies
- Active influencer of organization wide technology decisions
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge in networking concepts and infrastructure in both traditional and cloud environments
- Demonstrates an expert knowledge of industry best practice in at least one programming language and technology stack
- Active influencer of companywide technology decisions
- Responsible for monitoring technical capabilities across product teams.
- Actively works with product teams to drive adoption of practices and ways of working
- Works with Core Engineering leadership to prioritize work across the Core Engineering landscape
- Demonstrates new findings in technology regularly to the wider engineering community
- Actively working with multiple software engineering teams to introduce new tooling to align with industry trends
- Aids Core Engineering leadership with identifying colleagues suitable for promotion to principal engineering
- Participate in the hiring of new senior talent to Core Engineering
- Participate in the hiring of new senior talent to product teams
What you'll need
- Diplomatic and emotionally intelligent, has an ability to listen to and entertain other points of view
- 8+ years of experience with front end technologies such as React, TypeScript, JavaScript libraries
- Demonstrable experience in delivery and design of multi-domain architectures
- An expert practitioner of object-oriented programming principles, including SOLID and DDD
- Extensive experience implementing multiple data persistence technologies and architectures
- A quality driven approach to code authoring and testing, producing idiomatic and maintainable code
- Expertise using a wide variety of cloud architectures and alternatives
- Expert system design experience, including design patterns and best practices
More Information
At National Grid, we keep the lights on and homes warm. But it’s so much more than that. We keep people connected and society moving. This is no easy feat, and it takes all of us. But National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us and help bring energy to life.
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Salary
$146,000 - $206,000 a year
This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.
National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.
Nearest Major Market: Waltham
Nearest Secondary Market: Boston
