Solera

Principal Software Engineer

Solera
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9 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Write production-quality software across core services, platforms, and AI workflows.
  • Own high-impact features and complete project workstreams from technical discovery through post-launch follow-through.
  • Modernize legacy systems and migrate them incrementally to cloud-native architectures.
  • Design and evolve scalable microservices, RESTful APIs, distributed systems, and event-driven integrations.
  • Build agentic AI systems with tool use, multi-step reasoning, workflow automation, task planning, autonomous execution, human oversight, and MCP-style orchestration.
  • Integrate AI systems with business workflows, APIs, data sources, relational databases, and NoSQL stores.
  • Implement grounding, retrieval, validation, structured outputs, monitoring, evaluation, and feedback loops to mitigate hallucinations and manage AI behavior.
  • Set architectural standards, guide service boundaries and data ownership, and make tradeoffs across speed, scalability, correctness, reliability, and cost.
  • Lead technical execution across teams, including architecture, dependency management, risk mitigation, delivery planning, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Establish guardrails and best practices for AI-assisted coding, solution design, refactoring, testing, debugging, documentation, and code review.
  • Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews, and design discussions while developing broader technical leadership.
  • Build and maintain SaaS applications, Docker containers, Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and safe production deployments.
  • Participate in the full SDLC, including design, coding, testing, deployment, and production support.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional software development experience.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
  • Expert-level proficiency in C# and .NET, including ASP.NET Core and modern .NET development.
  • Strong understanding of RESTful API design, distributed systems, microservices architectures, testing strategies, and production-quality code.
  • Hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping AI-driven and agentic AI systems in production or production-like environments.
  • Experience with LLMs, AI processing systems, tool or function calling, context and memory management, structured outputs, and AI workflow orchestration such as MCP-style patterns.
  • Experience integrating AI systems with datastores, APIs, and event-driven workflows.
  • Hands-on experience with relational databases such as SQL Server and PostgreSQL, plus working knowledge of NoSQL data stores and caching strategies such as Redis.
  • Strong experience with Docker and production containerization, practical Kubernetes experience, and comfort working in AWS and/or Azure cloud environments.
  • Proficiency with Git and modern development workflows.
  • Experience with a frontend framework such as React or Angular.
  • Demonstrated ownership of large, complex systems, legacy modernization, cross-team technical leadership, independent project delivery, technical risk management, and engineer mentorship.
  • Preferred experience with Python, Java, TypeScript, message queues, event streaming, workflow orchestration platforms, vector databases, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge graphs, semantic search, AI evaluation harnesses, prompt/version management, safety checks, governance workflows, high-throughput or operationally critical SaaS systems, and Agile/Scrum environments.

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About Solera

1,001-5,000 employees

Solera provides SaaS platforms, data, and services spanning the vehicle lifecycle—claims, repairs, dealer operations, telematics, and fleet management—for insurers, repairers, dealerships, and fleets. Its portfolio includes Audatex, DealerSocket, Omnitracs, LoJack, and Spireon, and it processes over 300 million transactions annually for about 235,000 customers in 90+ countries. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Solera is privately held under Vista Equity Partners.

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