Principal Software Engineer

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Lifestyle
We're a global, multi-disciplinary team that's putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. As a member of HARMAN Lifestyle, you connect consumers with the power of superior sound.

• Contribute your talents to high-end, esteemed brands like JBL, Mark Levinson and Revel
• Unite your passion for audio innovation with high-tech product development
• Create pitch-perfect, cutting-edge technology that elevates the listening experience

What You Will Do:

• Mentor/guide a team of software engineering professionals.
• Communicate frequently with Development, Product Management, and other teams to enable planning, problem-solving, and shipping products.
• Ensure successful execution and delivery of engineering platform/framework, and continuous improvement of the organization's ability to execute them.
• Make strategic engineering solution recommendations to the senior staff.
• Develop and implement the processes, procedures and standards for the review and testing of software development and maintenance.
• Software and hardware development tools planning recommendations.
• Work with QA and product teams to develop test plans.
• Give regular status reports and performance metrics to the department manager.
• Interact with stakeholders (cross-site engineering teams and product management teams) to understand the requirements.
• Involved in design, development and peer review and leads-by-example and is hands-on as well.
• Desire to improve code quality and build highly stable, responsive applications.

What You Need to Be Successful:

• This position requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Technology.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in architecting, designing and implementing complete software solutions.
• Experience with Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, C# and .NET.
• Track record of strong troubleshooting and problem resolution skills.
• Agile software development experience; certification will be a bonus.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret scientific and technical journals.
• Ability to be detail-oriented and effectively document code.
• Demonstrates technical leadership skills.
• Must be a self-starter and a team player.

Bonus Points if You Have:

• Any JavaScript library experience.
• Ability to handle a variety of projects simultaneously.
• Should be a technical leader who inspires other teammates.
• Ability to work effectively with other teams.
• Should have excellent written and verbal skills in English.
• Experience working with globally distributed team is preferred.
• Knowledge or experience in audio domain/industry would be an advantage.

Leadership:

• Demonstrate character, clarity, courage and commitment to high-performance.
• Build an environment of trust, high performance and engagement by establishing clear goals and a commitment to feedback, development and recognition.

Change Orientation
:

• Champion a better, faster and simpler way of doing things.
• Apply original thinking and continuous improvement to processes, products, systems or services and manage change to better serve customer needs.

Collaboration:

• Connect, engage and communicate with others.
• Encourage open expression of ideas; communicate effectively at all levels and build strong relationships.

Judgment
:

• Demonstrate critical thinking to take appropriate risk and make sound and timely decisions.

Results-Driven
:

• Deliver extraordinary results.
• Take initiative to achieve superior, quality results against internal or external standards of excellence.

What Makes You Eligible:

• Willingness to travel: 5-10%.
• Willingness to work in an office in Budapest, Hungary.

What We Offer:

• Flexible work environment with a culture encouraging work-life integration and collaboration in a global environment.
• Access to employee discounts on world-class HARMAN/Samsung products (JBL, Harman Kardon, AKG etc.).
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
• "Be Brilliant" employee recognition and rewards program.
• Work on best-in-class emerging technologies and an atmosphere that motivates you to give your best.