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.
With a focus on customer-centric thinking, we're not just another vendor – we're a transformative force in the industry. By joining one of our Customer Excellence teams, you will have the chance to work with our portfolio of over 10,000 customers, including many Fortune 500 companies.
We are looking for a passionate and skilled Principal Software Engineer who thrives in a hands-on technical role with a focus on owning the quality of the code and systems they develop. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving the end-to-end delivery of features and systems, ensuring high standards of quality, performance, and maintainability throughout the development lifecycle. If you are committed to shipping reliable and scalable solutions, and enjoy solving complex problems, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities:
End-to-End Development: Own the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of features and services from concept to delivery.
Quality Ownership: Ensure high code quality, performance, and maintainability by following best practices and conducting thorough code reviews, automated testing, and performance monitoring.
Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and fellow engineers, to define and deliver features that meet both business and technical objectives.
Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify areas for improvement within the codebase, infrastructure, and development process. Drive solutions that increase team efficiency and code quality.
System Reliability: Monitor the health and performance of services and ensure timely resolution of issues and bugs.
Technical Innovation: Stay current with new technologies and trends to ensure the systems you build are modern, scalable, and aligned with industry best practices.
Required Qualifications:
Frontend Expertise: Strong experience in building, designing, and front-end applications using React with functional components. A required candidate will have experience in using UI libraries (e.g. ShadcnUI, Radix, MUI) and meta-frameworks (e.g. NextJS, Remix)
TypeScript Expertise: Experience with TypeScript, including advanced types and type-checking techniques and strong understanding of using the language with React.
Asynchronous Programming: Familiarity with promises, async/await, and event-driven architecture.
Testing and Debugging: Knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., Jest, Vitest, React Testing Library) and debugging tools.
Code Quality and Standards: Understanding of code linting & formatting, and adherence to best practices (e.g. writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code, following best practices such as TDD, unit testing, and code reviews).
Version Control: Experience with Git and collaborative development workflows (e.g. GitHub, GitLab).
Security Best Practices: Awareness of security standards, such as OAuth, JWT, and data encryption.
Performance Optimization: Experience in pragmatically optimizing code for performance, scalability, and efficiency.
Effective Communication: Capable of clearly communicating technical concepts to team members and stakeholders.
Strong Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to troubleshoot issues and optimize backend performance.
Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with Agile development practices, including Scrum and Kanban.
CI/CD Pipelines: Knowledge of continuous integration and deployment tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI).
Desired Qualifications:
Ownership Mindset: Passion for taking full ownership of features and ensuring their quality from concept through to production.
Performance and Optimization: Experience with profiling applications, identifying bottlenecks, and optimizing performance for scale.
Collaboration Skills: Comfortable working in a collaborative, Agile environment, with an emphasis on communication and team success.
While this is a frontend-focused role, a candidate may be required to assist in backend Node environment-related tasks from time-to-time. This requires, but is not limited to knowledge in:
- API Development: Skilled in designing and building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
- Database Management: Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis).
- Cloud platforms (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
Additionally, you will enjoy some of our local benefits such as:
- Comprehensive medical, accidental, and life insurance
- Weekly wellness sessions to support your physical and mental well-being
- A generous paid time off policy
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.
