Principal Software Engineer

About the job

Who we are

Solera gives fleets and drivers unprecedented driving performance insight and analysis, helping save fuel, expenses, and lives. Its video analysis, predictive analytics, and personalized performance program help fleets improve driving skills, lower operating costs, and deliver significant ROI. With an easy-to-use managed service, fleets and drivers can access and self-manage driving performance anytime, anywhere.

The Company has compiled the world's largest storehouse of nearly 300 million analyzed risky-driving events, including video and comprehensive sensor data. We create the next generation of vehicle fleet and driver safety technology platform ( SmartDrive® ) that allows vehicles to track not just location and vehicle faults but also observe driving safety patterns with real-time streaming into the cloud and advanced machine learning technology.

We are looking for an experienced Software engineer to join our team, leading the design, development, and delivery of our highly scalable web applications in the cloud.

Skills set BE :  C#, ASP.NET, NodeJS Frontend: JavaScript or TypeScript, React.js, HTML, CSS, JQuery, Bootstrap, StoryBook, cross-browser compatibility (Frontend skills are good to have) Backend: S3, AWS (Services) Systems: Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins Good to have: GraphQL, Webpack, Jest, SQL

Your role

- Solera engineers are trusted with the responsibility of designing and developing software that embraces quality and reliability while delivering performance across all platforms. Your role will be to spearhead these efforts and be a leader and mentor for others on the engineering team, specifically by

- Designing and developing services and applications that enable all Solera products and solutions.

- Strong experience with microservices architecture patterns

- Proven track record of building cloud-native applications

- Partnering with front-end, data, product, QA, operations, and other technical team leads in design, test, release planning, and coordination.

- Mentoring engineers in technologies, patterns, and best practices while leading by example in your areas of expertise

- Diagnosing, characterizing, and addressing performance, scale, and cross-platform stability issues

- Leading design reviews and code reviews for components and systems

- Prototyping and championing new technology introductions to the platform

- Effectively representing our technical capabilities and strategies to diverse internal teams, as well as to external partners and customer

What we’re looking for

- BS degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent experience

- Expert in modern software development practices in multiple languages and environments

- 12+ years of strong development and technical leadership experience

- 10+ years of significant experience with NodeJS, C# applications, and microservice technologies.

- 3+ years of experience interfacing with data access layers for SQL and NoSQL systems.

- GenAI: Hands-on work in GenAI over the last 1–3 years, including LLM integration, prompt engineering, RAG, MCP, Agentic AI, orchestration frameworks, and inference optimization.

- Experience supporting a platform transition while tactically diagnosing and solving challenges in complex legacy software stacks.

- Strong API designer, with a demonstrated history of working effectively with front-end, data engineering, quality, and operations teams.

- A team player who works hard, admits his/her strengths and weaknesses and has the flexibility to improve by learning new things.

Rockstar qualifications

- Broad full-stack experience consisting of Front-End, Services, and Data layers.

- Experience with designing, planning, and implementing back-end services/microservices, and APIs.

- Experience with Node.js, C#, ASP.NET, TypeScript/JavaScript

- Experience driving agile teams and leveraging SCM, CI/CD, and robust build/test/profiling automation (Git, Jenkins, NPM, Spinnaker)

- Experience with web and public/private cloud services (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Nginx/Apache)

- Demonstrated history of developing frameworks that are effectively leveraged by other developers.

- Designed and built GenAI-powered applications using foundation models, RAG pipelines, and agent-based architectures.