At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our e-discovery platform is used by more than 13,000 organizations around the world to manage large volumes of data and quickly identify key issues during litigation, internal investigations, and compliance projects.

Here you can own your career in a community of values-driven people who help our customers around the world solve complex data challenges. If this sounds like the place for you, check out the details of this position below.

The Principal Engineer practices software engineering and leads a team (or a group of teams) of software developers to apply software engineering best practices and principles to deliver high quality, maintainable, reusable, reliable, performant, and scalable software on schedule. The Principal Engineer works closely with the architecture team and upper management to review and design key strategic products through software engineering best practices and processes, and to identify and mitigate risks to the on-time delivery of software. The Principal Engineer serves as a mentor and is a subject matter expert to other technical leads to improve technical and process expertise and promotes collaboration. The Principal Engineer also will act independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments strategic to the organization. 

Responsibilities

• · Partners with management and the architecture team to set and communicate team goals and vision aligned to business requirements;
• · Takes on independent critical projects which may impact the company's short- and long-term goals and strategies.
• · Offers coaching to ensure the teams stays focused and delivers against the goals and design, adapting to changing business requirements.
• · Specify non-functional software requirements and analyze all requirements to determine design feasibility within time and cost constraints and mentors others to do the same.
• · Estimate software development timelines and be accountable to the timelines by actively managing risks and changing requirements.
• · Provide input into system software architecture development by working with Advisory, Principle Engineers and Architecture team as required.
• · Design and lead the design of software using abstraction, low coupling and high cohesion, modularization, encapsulation and information hiding, interfaces, and separation of concerns.
• · Implement and lead the implementation of software using the practical application of algorithms, defensive programming and exception handling, fault tolerance, design patterns, and best practices of Object-Oriented Design (OOD) and Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) such as SOLID (Single Responsibility, Open-Closed, Liskov Substitution, Interface Segregation, and Dependency Inversion).
• · Test and lead the test of software with traceability back to requirements emphasizing the practice of Test Driven Design and the use of autonomous frameworks and Continuous Integration
• · Offer solutions to improve agile software development processes and practices (SCRUM) to advance engineering efficiency to maximize resources and reduce expense.
• Provides project and professional guidance and mentoring to team members.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related disciplines, or at least five (recommend we keep 5 here as it’s an alternative to school) years providing Software Quality Assurance for commercial-grade systems and applications
• At least 15+ years designing and coding software for commercial-grade systems
• At least 15+ years writing software that tests software in an automated fashion
• Ability to understand and design a macro scale architecture of a software technology or product line.
• Ability to works on critical issues and the most complex projects as needed by the organization.
• · Ability to decompose larger problems into software development work as self-contained, minimally inter-dependent tasks for team members to implement.
• · Ability to segregate software using abstraction and interfaces.
• · Ability to efficiently multi-task and manage multiple concurrent tasks by identifying differing priorities relative to changing business need.
• · Ability to consistently identify and deliver technical improvement feedback to team members in a supportive and constructive manner to achieve demonstrable results over time.
• · Excellent problem solving.
• · Excellent interpersonal and teamwork to facilitate collaborative problem solving amongst team members.
• · Excellent verbal and written communication to clearly, succinctly, and completely communicate intent (both technical and non-technical) in interactions with team members and management.
• · Excellent time management to ensure time (both his or hers and that of his or her team) is optimally allocated to meet prioritized business need.
• · Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Math or other related subject.
• Knowledge and experience in working with Agile development methodology.

Relativity has over 160,000 users in 40+ countries from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 70 Fortune 100 companies, and all of the Am Law 200. Relativity's cloud solution, RelativityOne, offers all the functionality of Relativity in a secure and comprehensive SaaS product. Our company has also been named one of Chicago's Top Workplaces by the Chicago Tribune for seven consecutive years. If you’re ready to grow with us, we’d love to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.