Job Description

Overview:

POSITION SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The Principal of Application Development acts as a technical expert on a specific area in Application Services, focusing on providing expertise, guidance, and support on high-expertise areas. This role leads all development activities and coordinates with other cross-functional teams to ensure delivery.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:• Design, develop, and deploy high-volume, high-usage self-service web portals for Herbalife Nutrition, utilizing Java/J2EE technologies.
• Lead team of contractors and/or employees to deliver software projects that drive the business value for Herbalife Nutrition.
• Collaborate with Technical Teams, Technical Manager, Project Manager and subject matter experts from the businesses and work closely with SMEs to understand, plan and implement.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.
• Ensure project success by reviewing project plans, timelines, estimates, and requirements documents providing feedback.
• Lead code reviews and administer paired programming.
• Lead implementation efforts: infrastructure setup and integrations with other applications, and/or front end open or licensed software. Recommends better, faster, or smarter implementations.
• Take a leadership and mentoring role when working with less experienced staff always raising the bar of technical expertise within the organization.
• Partner with stakeholders, educating, negotiating, and influencing them on implementation options and risks.
• Provide unique insight in the analysis of customer business requirements that may cross multiple functional areas and/or multiple technical platforms and understand the broad strategic implications.
• Contribute to creativity idea generation and may initiate and lead strategic projects that will add significant value to the business.
• Contribute to technical strategic planning for COMPANY, proposing new directions and technologies.
• Act independently and as part of a team to translate business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed applications.
• Being readily available to solve any unforeseen production downtimes/incidents



Qualifications:
Skills:
Required• 8+ years of relevant experience in delivering web technologies. Must have prior experience leading development of consumer apps.
• Experience with Java and J2EE
• Experience with Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud / Quarkus Java Package
• Experience with RESTful Web Services, Postman, HTTP (POST/GET/PUT), JWT, OAuth, Swagger
• Experience with API Gateway technologies like Apigee
• Experience with Azure cloud services like AKS
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes container management tools
• Experience with JPA/ Hibernate
• Experience with Oracle/Postgres/SQL Server RDBMS or other relational databases
• Experience with MongoDB or any other NoSQL databases
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
• Experience in Confluent Kafka is big plus
• Experience in design and launching complex business/responsive design applications.
• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices.
• Strong understanding of software best-practices as it applies to web and business application development.
• Hands on architecture design and development experience required in building large scale applications.
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.
• Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.


Certificates / Training:• Required: Certifications demonstrating industry recognition for area of expertise



Experience:• 8+ years' experience in applications with deep expertise in one area
• 6+ Years' experience in design & development of end-to-end complex applications



Education:
Required• Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent


Preferred• Advanced Technical Degree



Preferred Qualifications:• Experience supporting the performance and operation of high-traffic transactional web system in production environments, including log aggregation, remote debugging, pro-active monitoring of systems, for example through developing alerts.
• Continuous Delivery, including source control practices, versioning, branching, pipeline development, automation acceptance, and release management.
• Experience with international or multi-level marketing business
• Experience with monitoring tools.
• Certifications for desired non-niche programming languages


Qualifications:

POSITION SUMMARY STATEMENT:
The Principal of Application Development acts as a technical expert on a specific area in Application Services, focusing on providing expertise, guidance, and support on high-expertise areas. This role leads all development activities and coordinates with other cross-functional teams to ensure delivery.

DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES/DUTIES:• Design, develop, and deploy high-volume, high-usage self-service web portals for Herbalife Nutrition, utilizing Java/J2EE technologies.
• Lead team of contractors and/or employees to deliver software projects that drive the business value for Herbalife Nutrition.
• Collaborate with Technical Teams, Technical Manager, Project Manager and subject matter experts from the businesses and work closely with SMEs to understand, plan and implement.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, legal, infrastructure, and administrative/corporate processes and policies.
• Ensure project success by reviewing project plans, timelines, estimates, and requirements documents providing feedback.
• Lead code reviews and administer paired programming.
• Lead implementation efforts: infrastructure setup and integrations with other applications, and/or front end open or licensed software. Recommends better, faster, or smarter implementations.
• Take a leadership and mentoring role when working with less experienced staff always raising the bar of technical expertise within the organization.
• Partner with stakeholders, educating, negotiating, and influencing them on implementation options and risks.
• Provide unique insight in the analysis of customer business requirements that may cross multiple functional areas and/or multiple technical platforms and understand the broad strategic implications.
• Contribute to creativity idea generation and may initiate and lead strategic projects that will add significant value to the business.
• Contribute to technical strategic planning for COMPANY, proposing new directions and technologies.
• Act independently and as part of a team to translate business and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested, and deployed applications.
• Being readily available to solve any unforeseen production downtimes/incidents



Qualifications:
Skills:
Required• 8+ years of relevant experience in delivering web technologies. Must have prior experience leading development of consumer apps.
• Experience with Java and J2EE
• Experience with Spring / Spring Boot / Spring Cloud / Quarkus Java Package
• Experience with RESTful Web Services, Postman, HTTP (POST/GET/PUT), JWT, OAuth, Swagger
• Experience with API Gateway technologies like Apigee
• Experience with Azure cloud services like AKS
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes container management tools
• Experience with JPA/ Hibernate
• Experience with Oracle/Postgres/SQL Server RDBMS or other relational databases
• Experience with MongoDB or any other NoSQL databases
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
• Experience in Confluent Kafka is big plus
• Experience in design and launching complex business/responsive design applications.
• Strong knowledge of release/build/configuration management practices.
• Strong understanding of software best-practices as it applies to web and business application development.
• Hands on architecture design and development experience required in building large scale applications.
• Demonstrable understanding of object-oriented design/development, functional programming, and service-oriented architecture.
• Ability to prioritize and manage work, adhering to critical and aggressive project timelines in a fast-paced environment.
• Extensive experience in Software Development Life Cycle Management using Kanban, Scrum, or Scaled Agile is required.
• Understanding of complex development issues including security, accessibility, concurrency and cross-browser/device compatibility.
• Experience working in a rapid and agile development environment with frequent deliveries.


Certificates / Training:• Required: Certifications demonstrating industry recognition for area of expertise



Experience:• 8+ years' experience in applications with deep expertise in one area
• 6+ Years' experience in design & development of end-to-end complex applications



Education:
Required• Bachelor's in computer science or equivalent


Preferred• Advanced Technical Degree



Preferred Qualifications:• Experience supporting the performance and operation of high-traffic transactional web system in production environments, including log aggregation, remote debugging, pro-active monitoring of systems, for example through developing alerts.
• Continuous Delivery, including source control practices, versioning, branching, pipeline development, automation acceptance, and release management.
• Experience with international or multi-level marketing business
• Experience with monitoring tools.
• Certifications for desired non-niche programming languages