Principal Software Engineer
Join ABBYY and be part of a team that celebrates your unique work style. With flexible work options, a supportive team, and rewards that reflect your value, you can focus on what matters most – driving your growth, while fueling ours.
Our commitment to respect, transparency, and simplicity means you can trust us to always choose to do the right thing.
As a trusted partner for purpose-built AI and intelligent automation, we solve highly complex problems for our enterprise customers and put their information to work to transform the way they do business. Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones. You will work on further developing a portfolio already containing client names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK.
Role Overview:
ABBYY is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in C++ (mandatory), C#,
any front end technologies, and Azure to lead the end-to-end development of high-quality, scalable, and
modern software solutions. You will play a key role in driving technical excellence, mentoring engineers, and
influencing architecture and design decisions across the product.
Key Responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: Drive architecture, design, and development of mission-critical systems using C++, C#, any front-end technologies, and Azure. Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers across the team.
- End-to-End Ownership: Take full ownership of feature lifecycles—design, development, testing, deployment, and support—ensuring quality and scalability.
- Hands-on Development: Be deeply involved in coding, especially in C++, and contribute to complex backend and frontend features across the stack.
- Code Quality and Best Practices: Champion Test-Driven Development (TDD), clean coding, and modern software engineering practices. Lead code reviews and enforce high standards.
- System Reliability and Monitoring: Ensure the availability and performance of production systems. Drive the resolution of issues with minimal downtime.
- DevOps and CI/CD: Leverage GitHub for version control and participate in continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, designers, and engineering leadership to align business goals with technical deliverables.
- Innovation & Technical Direction: Evaluate and introduce new tools, technologies, and methodologies that improve software quality, performance, and developer productivity.
Required Qualifications:
- 10–13 years of professional experience in software development with a strong focus on C++ (must-have) and C#.
- Proficiency in front-end technologies including any front end technologies (React.js, Angular.js, NPM, Webpack, etc.)
- Experience with Microsoft Azure services and cloud-native application development.
- Strong expertise in SQL Server for designing and optimizing relational databases.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub and modern CI/CD practices.
- Solid understanding of TDD, unit testing frameworks, and automated testing strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to design scalable, maintainable, and high-performance software solutions.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
Desired Qualifications:
- Proven track record of technical ownership and delivery of complex software systems.
- Experience profiling and optimizing applications for performance and scalability.
- Ability to influence and align cross-functional teams in an Agile/Scrum environment.
- Passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and mentoring team members.
Join ABBYY, and you will:
Love how you work
- We provide remote and hybrid working options to fit all lifestyles.
- We use flexible hours across most of our teams to allow you to find your own definition of balance.
- Encouraging a culture of giving, we provide two paid volunteering days off every year so you can take time to contribute to the causes you care about.
- To ensure your family is cared for, we offer paid parental leave in all our locations.
Love whom you work with
- We are a global team of 600+ colleagues, spread across 15 countries on four continents.
- With colleagues representing 30+ nationalities, our workforce reflects the world.
- Innovation and excellence run through our veins. Our teams gather the expertise which has garnered ABBYY more than 140 technology patents.
- We are guided by the values of respect, transparency, and simplicity.
- "Team Environment" is in the top three highest-scoring drivers of engagement across all of our departments.
Love what you work on
- We are a company with more than 35 years of experience in the technology market;
- Over 10,000 customers trust ABBYY, including many Fortune 500 ones, with names such as DHL, Johnson & Johnson, FDA, DMV, PwC, KeyBank, Spotify, and H&R BLOCK;
- We have modernized the capture market by creating the first low-code/no-code IDP platform.
- Our Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision Technologies, and a marketplace built with AI, can transform any document in any process;
- Top Analyst firms recognize ABBYY's market leadership, including Gartner, Everest PEAK Matrix ® Assessment, ISG Intelligent Automation Lens, and NelsonHall, amongst others.
ABBYY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. To learn more about our commitment to Diversity and Inclusion, check out the careers section on our website.
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