Principal Engineer

We are looking to hire a Principal Engineer to join our Engineering, CTO team. The role will involve hands-on technical leadership on complex areas of the platform, providing broad technical influence across multiple teams. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of building high-scale, reliable systems and be comfortable designing for resilience, observability, and graceful degradation.

Requirements

• Clear communication of architectural goals and standards
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, appropriate judgement and decision-making skill
• Commitment to collaboration and teamwork
• Proven ability to effectively manage timelines and deliverables
• Self-starter, motivated team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Expert in Java with deep experience building and operating distributed microservices in a cloud environment, at scale
• Expert in OOPs and design patterns
• Expert in REST API design
• Strong practical knowledge of event-driven architectures
• Open-Source technologies, such as Spring and Hibernate
• Strong background in observability and reliability
• Open-source RDBMS technologies such as PostgreSQL
• Experience testing across different levels of applications and advocate for best practice
• Experience with compliance / risk / FinCrime domains
• Hands-on experience designing or integrating workflow engines
• Experience with rules / decision engines and a clear view on how to manage rule lifecycle, versioning and testing at scale
• Experience/understanding of agentic / AI-driven systems and how to integrate them into backend workflows with appropriate guardrails, monitoring and fallbacks
• Exposure to payment schemes/flows, regulatory frameworks, SME/partner onboarding; experience reducing false positives via rule tuning/enrichment; familiarity with schema governance and data-lineage tooling is a strong plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Relocation Assistance