Principal Software Engineer I - DP
Curriculum AssociatesBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted October 30, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Curriculum Associates is a leading educational technology organization that believes in the potential of every child and is changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready.
Job Description
Join Curriculum Associates as a Principal Software Engineer to lead technical initiatives, develop innovative software solutions, and drive new platform and product developments using Scala, Spark, Snowflake, and Big Data tools.
Requirements
- Lead technical initiatives and guide the team to develop innovative software solutions
- Build scalable, efficient, and high-performance pipelines and workflows
- Maintain and enhance existing software systems to ensure performance and reliability
- Recommend and implement technology upgrades to drive continuous improvement
- Support real-time streams, ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and reporting services
- Design and develop data frameworks, applications, and microservices
- Utilize Big Data tools such as Kafka, AWS S3 Data Lake, EMR, and Spark
- Adhere to coding best practices, including unit testing, design/code reviews, and comprehensive documentation
- Conduct thorough code reviews to maintain quality, mentor junior team members, and promote continuous learning
- Perform performance analyses and capacity planning for each release
- Work effectively as part of an Agile team, contributing to process improvements and innovative solutions
- Implement and promote security protocols and data governance standards across development projects
- Proactively introduce new approaches to overcome software challenges throughout the product lifecycle