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Exciting Opportunity for aPrincipal Engineer"At Recro, we are currently partnering with a leading enterprise to find a talented and passionate Principal Engineer to join their team."Refer to the Job opening mentioned below.Interested? For a detailed conversation, get it touch with me at []. Feel free to reach out to me directly for a discussionWe are seeking aPrincipal Engineerwho will act as thetechnical owner and architectfor their product domain. You will play a critical role inmodernizing platforms, scaling services, improving reliability, and mentoring engineers , while partnering with Engineering Managers, Product, AI Labs, Platform, and fellow PEs to ensure our solutions arescalable, reliable, secure, cost-efficient , and aligned with CA’s mission of supportingstudents, teachers, and the full learning lifecycle .What You Will DoTechnical Leadership & Architecture Own architecture, technical direction, and long-term system health for your domain. Design scalable, reliable systems used across student and educator workflows. Maintain clear, up-to-date architectural documentation and drive CA-wide standards. Execution & Engineering Excellence Lead development of Java/Spring Boot microservices and contribute to ReactJS where needed. Ensure high-quality code, strong testing discipline, and clean interfaces. Drive platform modernization, performance improvements, and responsible refactoring. Cross-Team Collaboration & Influence Lead complex, multi-team integrations and align data contracts, interfaces, and ownership. Influence engineers, fellow PEs, EMs, PMs, and partner teams without authority. Promote reusable patterns and prevent siloed or bespoke solutions. Operational Ownership Own reliability, performance, uptime, and on-call readiness for your systems. Lead incident analysis, drive long-term fixes, and define meaningful SLIs/SLOs. Ensure secure design practices and optimize cloud cost for your services. Mentorship & Technical Growth Mentor engineers at all levels in design, debugging, system thinking, and patterns. Partner with the Engineering Manager on architecture, quality, predictability, and team development. Contribute actively to CA-wide technical forums and engineering communities.What You Bring Technical Expertise 12–18 years of experience building large-scale backend or full-stack systems. Deep expertise inJava, Spring Boot, distributed systems, microservices, APIs . Working knowledge ofReactJSand front-end integration patterns. Strong debugging skills in production-scale distributed environments. Solid grounding in databases, caching, queues, CI/CD, containers, and observability. Architecture & Leadership Demonstrated ability to design and evolve complex systems supporting high-scale student/teacher products. Proven influence across multiple teams with strong decision-making and trade-off analysis. Track record of raising engineering standards and mentoring senior engineers. Operational & Cloud Experience Experience owning production systems, SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and performance tuning. Familiarity with AWS or Azure cloud ecosystems. Strong understanding of secure development and privacy considerations for student data. Nice to Have Experience with PHP/LAMP stack. EdTech or large-scale learning platform experience. Exposure to ML/AI-powered personalization workflows.