Senior Principal Engineer

Prodigy Systems and Services Private Limited`
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Job Details

  • Location: Hyderabad, India (100% Work from Office)
  • Experience Required: 12–15 Years
  • Job Type: Full-Time / Permanent
  • Client Context: US-Based Fortune 200 Energy & Utilities Enterprise
  • Travel Requirement: Active US Business Visa (B1/B2) required for potential immediate travel deploymentAbout Us: The Prodigy DNA

At Prodigy Systems and Services, we are an AI-Native, extensive-engineering-focused enterprise that believes software engineering is an elite craft. For over 14 years, we have maintained a deeply trusted, bulletproof foothold with our primary US Fortune 200 client. Today, we have a powerhouse family of 70 elite engineers actively scaling and supporting their infrastructure.

We are a tight-knit family of professionals built on a core pillar of deep mutual respect. Our strengths are anchored in Customer First, Integrity, Transparency, and Innovation. We are working hungry, driven to make a true difference in society and the world through hyper-velocity technological progress.

When you join Prodigy, you will experience:

  • Warm, brilliant colleagues who push you to be your best engineering self.
  • A humble management team that is fiercely committed to doing the right thing.
  • An environment of radical documentation: We live by a strict operational doctrine: "Over-communication is a mandatory requirement." We heavily utilize Microsoft Teams, Emails, and written technical specs. If it is not in writing, it never happened.Role Description & Intent

We are looking for a powerhouse, battle-tested Senior Consultant / Principal Engineer (IC) who can single-handedly pull the engineering weight of an entire team. This is a high-throttle street—the work is highly demanding, intensely fast-paced, yet deeply rewarding.

This is strictly a production-code-producing role. You will not be limited to high-level whiteboard architecture; you must actively write, optimize, compile, and ship the code you design. You will be responsible for tearing down a legacy enterprise stack and rebuilding it from scratch using state-of-the-art Generative AI acceleration.

Core Responsibilities & Technical Expectations

  • Production Code Execution: Massively produce clean, scalable, production-grade code leveraging Microsoft .NET Core (C#) and advanced SQL Server engineering.
  • AI-Autonomous Engineering: Operate as an AI-augmented developer. You must natively orchestrate autonomous AI software agents (like Devin) and advanced tools (ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf) within sandboxed environments to multiply development speed.
  • Spec-Driven Development (SDD): Write software exclusively against rigorous, unambiguous technical specifications. Code is only written once the spec is perfect.
  • Architectural Rigor: Strictly apply SOLID principles and decoupled design patterns to ensure the new stack is easily maintainable.
  • High-Scale Engineering: Design, implement, and maintain systems built to handle 0.5 Million+ active customers and scale smoothly through 5 Million+ transactions daily with bulletproof stability.
  • Hybrid Infrastructure Management: Engineer code optimized to run seamlessly within a primary On-Premises Data Center while managing low-latency replication and automated failover pipelines to AWS Disaster Recovery (DR).
  • Observability & Instrumentation: Build world-class distributed log instrumentation and tracing setups to ensure zero blind spots across the On-Prem/AWS boundary.
  • Cost-Sensitive Engineering: Demonstrate a relentless focus on minimizing cloud operational spend, compute overhead, and execution costs per transaction.Core Skills & Competencies
  • Primary Stack: Microsoft .NET C#, .NET Core, Advanced SQL Server (Query optimization, locking, indexing structures).
  • AI Engineering: Cognition Devin orchestration, ChatGPT prompt engineering, Cursor, Windsurf.
  • Methodologies: Spec-Driven Development (SDD), SOLID Principles, Test-Driven Development (TDD).
  • Infrastructure: Hybrid Data Centers, AWS Core Services (EC2, S3, RDS, DR automation).
  • Observability: Advanced Distributed Logging, Telemetry, and APM Instrumentation.
  • Industry Knowledge: Prior experience in the Texas Energy & Utilities sector (ERCOT, smart grids, or deregulated market clearing) is a massive plus.Rigorous 4-Round Interview Evaluation Process
  • Round 1: Elite Core Engineering & Architecture Deep-Dive
  • Focus: Severe testing of .NET/C# memory allocations, asynchronous programming models, multi-threading, and SQL Server transactional plan internals.
  • Round 2: The AI-Augmented Hyper-Velocity Coding Challenge
  • Focus: A live, 60-minute, hands-on programming test. Candidates must leverage Generative AI tools (Devin/Cursor paradigms) to modernize a complex legacy code block into fully instrumented, spec-driven code.
  • Round 3: Scale, Hybrid Infra & Cost-Sensitive Systems Design
  • Focus: Whiteboard scenario cracking. Designing for 5M daily transactions, maintaining sync across On-Prem and AWS DR, and proving compute-cost efficiency.
  • Round 4: High-Throttle Executive & Cultural Fit
  • Focus: Evaluation of written and verbal communication fluency, mental stamina under high pressure.

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