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Principal Engineer

You will define long-term architecture for payments, platform, data, integration, and operational systems. You will design secure, resilient distributed systems, lead cross-functional modernization initiatives, establish engineering standards, and guide AI, stablecoin, blockchain, and payment-technology decisions. You will mentor senior engineers and translate business priorities into practical technical solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive long-term technical architecture across payment, platform, data, integration, and operational systems
  • Design scalable, resilient, secure, highly available distributed systems
  • Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives
  • Drive modernization, scalability improvements, and technical-debt reduction
  • Establish standards for architecture, reliability, observability, security, testing, and operations
  • Lead AI transformation initiatives
  • Design and implement AI-agent, LLM-workflow, automation, and developer-tooling systems
  • Shape strategy for stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and payment rails
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, settlement mechanisms, fintech protocols, and platform investments
  • Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders
  • Advise executive and engineering leadership
  • Translate business priorities into scalable technical solutions

Requirements

  • Approximately 12–18 years of software engineering experience
  • Experience at Staff+, Senior Staff, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent level
  • Expertise in distributed systems, backend architecture, API, microservice, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven systems
  • Hands-on software engineering and architecture capability
  • Experience leading complex initiatives across multiple teams
  • Experience influencing technical strategy without direct authority
  • Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or a high-scale regulated technology environment
  • Understanding of scalability, data consistency, reliability, security, fault tolerance, and production operations
  • Communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to executive and non-technical audiences

Benefits

  • Equity participation

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