Principal Software Engineer

The Impact You’ll Have

• Own the technical roadmap and author system designs that enable scalable, secure, and operationally efficient card issuing and payment processing products for our customers.
• Spend significant time in the codebase – writing, reviewing, and optimizing code across the issuing and processing stack.
• Identify and drive high-impact technical initiatives that improve the performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of our core processing engines.
• Collaborate with Product Managers to analyze requirements and provide technical recommendations across onboarding, issuing, digital wallets, authorization & clearing, transaction controls, and ledger.
• Mentor and guide technical leads, influence stakeholders, and establish success metrics to drive organization-wide technical excellence.
• Apply and evangelize modern best practices in your software designs and implementations to increase the platform's resiliency and scalability.

Who You Are

• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated passion for software engineering excellence, including design principles, fault tolerance practices, scalability, cost, security & privacy considerations, and test-driven development.
• Experience partnering with product teams to ideate and bring innovative solutions to market.
• Experience developing and scaling microservices using modern cloud technologies, preferably AWS.
• Experience working with high volume / low latency data infrastructures.
• Solid understanding of security engineering best practices and demonstrable experience in designing solutions that adhere to those standards.
• Passion for non-functional challenges, namely: Scale, Cost, Reliability, Performance, High Availability.
• Experience building systems running in multiple regions.
• Team-oriented approach – can effectively lead a project, participate as an influential team member, and work cross-functionally with other organizations.
• Experience with our tech stack, namely Java, Springboot, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, JPOS, and AWS services.

Nice-To-Haves

• Master's degree in Software Engineering.
• Experience in payment processing, card issuing, or the payments industry.
• Domain experience in authorization, clearing, settlement, tokenization, or ledger systems.