Principal Software Engineer

🕒 December 19, 2025

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Progress

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1981

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Post-IPO Equity on 1995-01

Software • Artificial Intelligence • Infrastructure Management

Progress is a software company that offers a wide range of products and services aimed at improving digital experiences, data management, and infrastructure management. The company provides AI-powered applications across its platforms, enabling businesses to develop and manage these applications efficiently. Progress offers solutions such as the Progress Data Platform for data, AI, and analytics projects, and Sitefinity for digital content and experience management. Additionally, Progress provides infrastructure management products to help streamline network and application management, as well as data connectivity tools under the DataDirect brand. The acquisition of ShareFile has expanded Progress's capabilities in secure file transfer and collaboration. With a strong focus on artificial intelligence, Progress works to deliver innovative solutions for its customers and partners across various industries.

📋 Description

• Architect, design, and develop advanced capabilities for OpenEdge Development Tools, leveraging strong analytical and problem-solving skills to deliver modern, AI-enabled developer experiences • Lead the evolution of development tooling features, improving performance, usability, diagnostics, and integration with next-generation AI workflows • Drive the research, design, and integration of AI-powered features—including RAG-based developer assistance, model-context protocol (MCP) integrations, intelligent code insights, and automated diagnostics—within the OpenEdge Developer Tools ecosystem • Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the team, applying systems thinking to solve complex business and technical challenges while ensuring adherence to best-in-class coding, architectural, and design standards • Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, QA, and UX teams to deliver robust, scalable, and human-centered developer solutions enhanced by AI • Analyze and optimize performance issues using industry-standard profiling tools, AI-assisted diagnostics, and telemetry-driven insights • Ensure quality and maintainability through automated testing, AI-augmented code reviews, and continuous integration pipelines • Stay current with emerging technologies in IDE tooling, AI-assisted development, LLM-driven workflows, developer productivity tooling, and performance optimization • Adhere to Agile methodologies, contributing actively to all ceremonies and promoting an iterative, learning-focused mindset.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required • 8+ years of experience in a product development organization, with a proven record of designing and delivering scalable, high-quality software solutions • Strong proficiency in Java, with openness to expand into JavaScript, TypeScript, and other AI-relevant technologies • Demonstrated experience developing VS Code extensions or Eclipse plugins, with solid understanding of LSP, DAP, and modern developer platform architectures • Strong foundation in web technologies—HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST services—and modern frameworks such as React or Angular • Deep expertise in algorithms, data structures, object-oriented design, and software architecture • Solid understanding of database concepts, query optimization, and performance tuning for reliability and scale • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, CodeWhisperer) • Familiarity with AI integration patterns such as RAG, vector search, embeddings, context orchestration, and model-driven features in developer tooling • Working knowledge of Node.js and modern JavaScript frameworks used in IDE tooling or developer platforms • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, build automation, and version control systems like Git • Expertise in profiling, diagnostics, and memory/performance optimization on the JVM or similar platforms • Awareness of software security practices, including identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10, dependency scanning, secure coding) • Experience applying static and dynamic analysis tools to ensure secure, maintainable code • Comfortable working across Unix/Linux and Windows environments • Proven ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate in cross-functional teams, driving architecture, planning, and delivery of sophisticated AI-driven features • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with a systems-thinking approach to technical and business challenges • Strong commitment to Agile principles, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive remuneration package • Employee Stock Purchase Plan Enrolment • 30 days of earned leave • An extra day off for your birthday • Various other leaves like marriage leave, casual leave, maternity, and paternity leave • Premium Group Medical Insurance for employees and five dependents, personal accident insurance coverage, life insurance coverage • Professional development reimbursement • Interest subsidy on loans - either vehicle or personal loans • Health club reimbursement