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Principal Engineer (Java)

AT Dun & Bradstreet
Dun & Bradstreet

Principal Engineer (Java)

Short Hills, NJ / Remote

Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet

We are at a transformational moment in our company journey - and we're so excited about it. Each day, we are finding new ways to strengthen our award-winning culture, and to accelerate creativity, innovation and growth. Our purpose is to help customers improve business performance with Dun & Bradstreet's Data Cloud and Live Business Identity, and we're wildly passionate and committed to this purpose. So, if you're looking to make an immediate impact at a company that welcomes bold and diverse thinking, come join us!

As a Principal Software Engineer, Java focused, you will take a lead role in the design and development of the most strategic products in Dun & Bradstreet's finance and risk business. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor to architecture and technology choices and a carrier of innovation and engineering culture across the organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in building high performance java microservices for web applications as well as proficiency across the stack from databases to front-end to DevOps.

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Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and develop highly performant and robust code to industry standards.
  • Exhibit leadership across the team that contributes to sound architectural choices.
  • Provide root-cause analysis of complex issues across all layers of the tech stack from hardware, OS, application, network, and information security platforms.
  • Promote an engineering culture, excellence within the team and across the organization.
  • Share knowledge and expertise, build peer groups, actively communicate, and mentor team members.
  • Proactively collaborate across product, engineering, and business teams to solve for problems quickly and creatively.
Key Requirements:
  • Bachelors degree in CS or equivalent experience
  • Minimum 7 years experience developing and maintaining enterprise-grade applications
  • Strong knowledge and hands on development skills in the following areas:
    • Java & Spring Boot
    • Strong OOPS and Design Patterns
    • Restful API design
    • Multi-threading / Concurrency
    • Database design and tuning, SQL & NoSQL patterns
    • AWS
      • EC2, S3, RDS, EFS
      • ECS
      • Lambda, Step Functions
      • IAM, Security Groups, ALB, etc.
    • Additional
      • Typescript/JavaScript
      • EKS, Docker, Jenkins, and Terraform
  • Organized, self-directed, and detail oriented
  • Excellent communication skills
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Dun & Bradstreet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, genetic information, protected military and veteran status, ancestry, marital status, medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by law.

We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with Dun & Bradstreet and need special assistance or an accommodation to use our website or to apply for a position, please send an e-mail with your request to TalentAcquisitionTeam@dnb.com. Determination on requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.

Please note that all Dun & Bradstreet job postings can be found at https://dnb.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers and all communication from Dun & Bradstreet will come from an email address ending in @dnb.com.

Client-provided location(s): Short Hills, Millburn, NJ, USA
Job ID: dun-R-09665
Employment Type: Other