Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fuelling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
As a trusted partner for intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Innovation and excellence run through our veins, and you will work with experts who are creating market-leading technologies, using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, and an advanced and sophisticated tech stack.
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Principal Software Engineer who thrives in a hands-on technical role with a focus on owning the quality of the code and systems they develop. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of features and systems, ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability throughout the development lifecycle. If you are committed to shipping reliable and scalable solutions, and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery.
- Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality.
- System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs.
- Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ Years Experience in the Focus Scope of Responsibility: Multiple Product
- Mentor: all Engineering and Leadership
- Thought Leader in Area
- Proficient in Multiple Programming Languages: Strong coding abilities in languages commonly used for SDKs and tooling, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, C#, Swift, Kotlin, and/or Java.
- SDK Development: Proven experience building SDKs and libraries that enable developers to integrate with products seamlessly and efficiently.
- Developer Tooling: Knowledge of developer tools, such as CI/CD, package managers (e.g., npm, NuGet, Maven), testing frameworks, and code editors (e.g., VS Code, IntelliJ).
- Open Source Contribution and Community Building: Familiarity with open-source development practices and ability to engage with and support developer communities.
- Version Control Systems: Proficiency with Git and platforms like GitHub or GitLab, including workflows (e.g., branching strategies, pull requests, code reviews).
- Debugging and Performance Optimization: Skills in debugging, profiling, and optimizing code to improve reliability and efficiency of SDKs and tools.
- Technical Documentation and Communication: Ability to create clear, thorough documentation, sample applications, and tutorials for a diverse developer audience.
- Cross-Platform Development: Experience with cross-platform SDKs or tools that work across mobile (iOS, Android), web, and potentially other platforms (e.g., React Native, Flutter).
- User-Centric Design: Understanding of developer pain points and the ability to design tools and SDKs with a focus on simplicity, reliability, and developer experience.
- Testing and Automation: Experience with unit and integration testing for SDKs, automated testing setups, and quality assurance to maintain stability and robustness.
- Semantic Versioning (SemVer): Deep understanding of SemVer principles and experience in maintaining SDK versions and release management to ensure compatibility and stability for users.
Desired Qualifications:
- Ownership Mindset: Passion for taking full ownership of features and ensuring their quality from concept through to production.
- Performance and Optimization: Experience with profiling applications, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing performance for scale.
- Collaboration Skills: Comfortable working in a collaborative, Agile environment, with an emphasis on communication and team success.
Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance
- Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being
- A generous paid time off policy
At ABBYY you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 800+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With 30+ nationalities and ages ranging from 21 to 80, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins.
- Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.
- We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity. "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 30 years of experience in the technology market.
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK in our client portfolio.
- ABBYY has modernized the way companies leverage their data in documents by creating the first low-code/no-code Intelligent Document Processing platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a Marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process.
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
