Principal Software Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description
Dun & Bradstreet is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to support their platform and data teams. This role involves developing and maintaining front-end and back-end code for a B2B audience building platform. You will also develop, maintain, and analyze datasets from various sources to generate client insights and power the platform. Key responsibilities include designing and implementing state-of-the-art backend and frontend systems, advising leadership on technical subjects and feasibility, assisting in talent identification and interviewing, providing regular engineering updates, owning application code, and understanding system architecture including CI/CD and infrastructure. Collaboration with DevOps, Product, and stakeholders is crucial to ensure technical soundness and meet user requirements. The role emphasizes best practices, fault-tolerant architecture, creating new ways for customers to understand markets, and visualizing directions. You will also document systems for team maintenance, foster a supportive team environment, execute goals efficiently, and share expertise while learning from peers.
Must have:
- 10+ years of software engineering lifecycle experience
- Develop isomorphic web apps in TypeScript
- Design scalable, real-time architectures
- Proficiency in backend languages (Node.js, Python, Go)
- Experience with backend frameworks (Django, Express, Flask)
- Experience with React.js for UIs
- Relational database optimization and design
- Develop high-throughput public and private APIs
- Experience with CSS frameworks (Tailwind CSS, Pure CSS)
- Move large data volumes across services
- Experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS)
- Data-driven and detail-oriented
- Experience with remote development teams
- Setup and maintain tests (unit, integration, end-to-end)
- Experience with version control (GIT/GitHub/BitBucket)
- Experience with Agile Project Management tools (Clickup/Jira/Confluence)
- Develop secure and performant applications
- Extensive experience with SQL and relational databases
- Experience with OS level scripting (bash, sed, awk, grep)
- Expertise in containerized infrastructure and CI/CD (CloudBuild, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions)
Good to have:
- Experience with a meta-framework (Next.js, Remix) especially Remix
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform services (BigQuery, Google Cloud Functions, Google Pub/Sub)
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, Redshift, EMR)
- Experience in AdTech, web cookies, and online advertising
- Testable and efficient Python for data processing
- Object-oriented programming, functional programming a plus
- Analytic tools and ETL/ELT/data pipeline frameworks a plus
Perks:
- Generous paid time off
- Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave
- Paid sick time
- Education assistance and training resources
- Do Good Program (Paid volunteer days & donation matching)
- Competitive 401k with company matching
- Health & wellness benefits
- Medical, dental & vision insurance
Job Details
Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet unlocks the power of data through analytics, creating a better tomorrow. Each day, we are finding new ways to strengthen our award-winning culture and accelerate creativity, innovation and growth. Our 6,000+ global team members are passionate about what we do. We are dedicated to helping clients turn uncertainty into confidence, risk into opportunity and potential into prosperity. Bold and diverse thinkers are always welcome. Come join us! Learn more at dnb.com/careers.
Job Summary: This role will support both our platform and data teams. Develop and maintain the front and back-end code for a best-in-class B2B audience building platform. Develop, maintain, and analyze datasets from diverse sources, including mobile and web, government agencies, web crawls, social media, and proprietary datasets, to create insights for our clients, power our platform, and create an innovative market understanding.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement state of the art backend and frontend systems to support project work.
- Advise project leadership on technical subjects and provide input on feasibility of product asks.
- Assist the leadership team in identifying engineering talent, by determining underutilized engineers already in the organization and by participating in the interview process.
- Keep stakeholders apprised of project progress by regularly provides engineering updates.
- Take ownership of the application code and develop a complete understanding of how the application functions.
- Master the development tools being used and the services employed.
- Develop a thorough understanding of how the application functions from a systems perspective (Application Code + CI / CD + Serverless & Hosted Infrastructure). Adhere to and encourage best practices set forth by the Engineering and Quality Assurance teams.
- Collaborate with DevOps, Product and stakeholders to ensure that the application is both technically sound and meets user requirements.
- Be a good collaborator with your peers. Be easy to get ahold of and attend all required meetings.
- Participate in meetings. Be respectful and clearly communicate. If you are unsure of something, request clarification. If you see a better way of doing something, articulate how it is better and what tradeoffs might be entailed.
- Architect robust systems and write software that is highly fault tolerant, producing high quality results.
- Create new ways for our customers to understand their markets, and new tools to visualize the directions they should head.
- Cooperatively design and document systems that can be cleanly and easily maintained by a team.
- Share a friendly, supportive, and reliable attitude with a great team that hold each other accountable.
- Execute efficiently on short and long-term goals.
- Bring your expertise to the table and be prepared to both teach and learn from your peers.
- Be inquisitive when you don't know something, and confident when you do.
- Collaborate with the data, platform, QA, and DevOps teams to design and construct advanced systems for processing, analyzing, searching, and visualizing vast datasets.
- Architect resilient systems and write highly fault-tolerant software to consistently deliver high-quality results.
Key Requirements:
- Overall 10+ years of successful commercial experience of software engineering life cycle
- Experience with a meta-framework (Next.js, Remix) highly desired, especially Remix
- Experience developing isomorphic web applications in TypeScript.
- Experience designing and implementing scalable architecture with real-time capabilities.
- At a minimum, high-level proficiency with:
- Experience moving large volumes of data across services and architectures.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform services (BigQuery, Google Cloud Functions, Google Pub/Sub, etc.) or AWS.
- Extremely data driven and detail oriented.
- Experience working with a remote development team.
- Dedication to setting up and maintaining unit, integration and end-to-end tests.
- Experience with version control (GIT/GitHub/BitBucket) and Agile Project
- Management tools (Clickup/Jira/Confluence).
- Excited by the idea of building scalable and reliable products.
- Demonstrated appetite for the rapidly evolving world of web development.
- Expert at developing secure and performant applications. Key Stakeholders
- Extensive experience with SQL and relational databases, including optimization and design.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, RDS, S3, Redshift, EMR, and more).
- Experience with OS level scripting (bash, sed, awk, grep, etc.).
- Experience in AdTech, web cookies, and online advertising technologies.
- Testable and efficient Python coding for data processing and analysis.
- Expertise in containerized infrastructure and CI/CD systems, including CloudBuild, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
- Experience with version control (GIT/Github/BitBucket) and Agile Project Management tools (Clickup/Jira/Confluence).
- Experience with object-oriented programming, functional programming a plus
- Analytic tools and ETL/ELT/data pipeline frameworks a plus
a. A modern backend scripting language or runtime: Node.js, Python, Go, etc.
b. Backend framework such as Django, Express, Flask, etc.
c. React.js framework for building user interfaces
d. Relational Database optimization and design (Postgres desired)
e. Developing high-throughput public and private APIs
f. Vanilla CSS and CSS Frameworks, including Tailwind CSS, Pure CSS or others
Benefits We Offer
· Generous paid time off in your first year, increasing with tenure.
· Up to 16 weeks 100% paid parental leave after one year of employment.
· Paid sick time to care for yourself or family members.
· Education assistance and extensive training resources.
· Do Good Program: Paid volunteer days & donation matching.
· Competitive 401k with company matching.
· Health & wellness benefits, including discounted Wellhub membership rates.
· Medical, dental & vision insurance for you, spouse/partner & dependents.
· Learn more about our benefits: http://bit.ly/41Yyc3d.
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