Cerence - Principal Software Engineer - Python

Your Impact : Participate in the technical aspects of the Cerence AI Cloud Services R&D application through the full life-cycle of the development including requirements, design, implementation, testing, documentation, maintenance, training and support.- Design and develop new features and key software modules of the software solution.- Share the ownership of one or more major software components.- Write Python and/or Java code and unit tests to implement the solution.- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure high quality end products.- Advocating and adhering to the software developments best practices.- Participate in daily scrums, plus sprint planning/review/retro meetings and grooming sessions.- Collaborate with the Dev Ops team to deploy production loads to private or public clouds.- We think everyone should be close to our clients needs & challenges, as it makes us better team members.- Perform tasks related to securing and keeping the products, tools, and processes that you are responsible for securing.- Collaborate with on-shore team and if needed, you may need to work in EST, CST overlapping time.What You Bring : - Bachelors degree in Engineering or Computer Science.- Overall 12+ years of experience with 5+ years on with Python.- Good experience in OO design and design patterns.- Experience building AI Agent and shipping professional software.- Demonstrated ability to focus on and complete tasks on time.- Being a strong team player.- Show flexibility under changing conditions.- Ability to analyze and solve complex problems quickly and creatively.- An insatiable desire to learn new technologies.- Excellent oral and written communication skills.- Self-starting, self-motivated, self-directed, and self-sufficient.- Knowledge about CICD practice, e.g. code organization (code, unitary test or integration test, mocking practice).- Experience developing scalable, standards-compliant, reusable, quality code, unit-testing and setting the standard for the rest of the team.- Good knowledge of the Agile process.- Hands on experience with PANDAS or PySPARK.- Knowledge of software version control management (e.g. git) and continuous integration practices (e.g. Bamboo, Jenkins).- Knowledge of web back-end framework, open-standard format and protocols e.g. Json, XML, RESTful.- Practical knowledge of databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL).- Familiarity with microservices and its container ecosystem (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).- Familiarity with infrastructure deployment / configuration tools (K8s, Envoy, Terraform, etc.) and knowledge about Azure, AWS. (ref:hirist.tech)