Principal Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Jul 08, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days
Job Summary
Driving high-impact projects for customers, the full-time remote Principal Software Engineer will own the technical roadmap, optimize the issuing and processing engines, and collaborate with engineering leaders to enhance operational excellence across the organization.
Key responsibilities
- Own the technical roadmap and author system designs for scalable and secure card issuing and payment processing products
- Spend significant time in the codebase, writing, reviewing, and optimizing code across the issuing and processing stack
- Identify and drive high-impact technical initiatives to improve the performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency of core processing engines
Required qualifications
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
- Experience developing and scaling microservices using modern cloud technologies, preferably AWS
- Solid understanding of security engineering best practices and experience designing compliant solutions
- Experience with high volume/low latency data infrastructures
- Proficiency in Java, Springboot, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Kafka, JPOS, and AWS services
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