Principal Software Engineer- Custom Applications

FlightSafety International Inc
United States, Ohio, Columbus
Mar 13, 2025
About FlightSafety International FlightSafety International is the world's premier professional aviation training company and supplier of flight simulators, visual systems and displays to commercial, government and military organizations. The company provides training for pilots, technicians and other aviation professionals from 167 countries and independent territories. FlightSafety operates the world's largest fleet of advanced full-flight simulators and award-winning maintenance training at Learning Centers and training locations in the United States, Canada, France and the United Kingdom. Purpose of Position The Principal Software Engineer is a hands-on Agile software engineer, evolving our custom applications (old and new), modeling and coaching software craftsmanship, and helping define our strategic direction. Tasks and Responsibilities Test drive custom software and be a role model for other software engineers Lead the evolution of new and antiquated/monolithic custom software solutions into solutions balancing cost and quality concerns Concisely and accessibly express sophisticated architectural and design concepts to mixed audiences Humbly coach software engineers to adopt either test driven or unit-test centric development practices Participate in strategic discussions with business partners and solution and enterprise architects Provide meaningful input to enterprise architecture reviews, helping guide our strategic technical direction Participate and support in Scrum and targeted XP practices and their adoption Participate in production troubleshooting as needed on or off hours Infrequent travel when needed Minimum Education Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience Minimum Experience 10+ years of experience in any software development role Strong experience in .NET platform and MVC Strong experience in Java/J2EE Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Advanced knowledge and experience working with OOP Design Patterns (GoF), Enterprise Application Architecture, and Enterprise Integration Patterns Polyglot programmer with experience working in various languages and paradigms (OOP, Functional, Imperative, Declarative, etc.) Disciplined Test Driven Development (TDD) practitioner and familiarity with Behavior Driven Development / Specification by Example (BDD) Advocate for SOLID and CUPID principles, and Legacy code remediation practices Understand of distributed architecture, service oriented architecture, hexagonal architecture, clean architecture, event-driven architecture, microservices architecture, domain driven design and a deep understanding of the REST architectural style Experience implementing concurrency, parallelization, eventual consistency, and asynchronous programming Versed in modern web protocols and technologies, including but not limited to DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP, WebSockets, etc. Practitioner of Agile Methodologies, eXtreme Programming, Software Craftsmanship, DevOps, Continuous Delivery Physical Demands and Work Environment The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate. The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate. FlightSafety is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.