Principal Engineer

Job Title : PrincipalEngineer

Location : Seattle WA (need to workonsite or hybrid 3 days a week).

Duration : LongTerm Contract.

Key Requirement : Having intensive experience and knowledgeof Payment systems.

Responsibility

• Leads and mentors a team of engineers; provides technicalguidance shares best practices and fosters a culture of continuouslearning and growth.
• Designs develops anddeploys highperformance enterprise services and microservices thatpower our digital payments infrastructure including paymentgateways token vaults and fraud management systems.
• Adheres to and drives modern software engineeringpractices through design reviews.
• Works onsystem design through welldefined interfaces across multiplecomponents code reviews leveraging data / telemetry to makedecisions.
• Develops bestinclass engineeringfor our services by ensuring that the services and the componentsare welldefined and modularized secure reliable diagnosableactively monitored and reusable.
• Improves testcoverage for services; organizes and implements integration tests;and resolves problem areas.
• Ensurestestability portability / monitoring reliability and maintainability;and understands when code is ready to be shared anddelivered.
• Gains a working understanding ofbusiness and collaborates with crossfunctional teams includingProduct Managers Architects and other Engineering teams to gatherrequirements define technical specifications and drive theimplementation of scalable and reliable paymentsolutions.
• Conducts indepth technical analysisof paymentrelated systems and processes; identifies areas forimprovement and recommends innovative solutions to enhanceefficiency security and customer experience.
• Collaborates with DevOps teams to ensure the smoothdeployment and operation of services and systems in a highlyavailable and scalable production environment.
• Focuses on business needs through a data drivenapproach.
• Troubleshoots and optimizesautomation reliability and monitoring for deliveredproducts.
• Stays uptodate with the latestindustry trends and advancements in digital payments microservicesarchitecture and fraud detection techniques;

applies them to driveinnovation and excellence in our payment systems.

Required

• 10 years technical engineering experience withcoding in languages including but not limited to C C C# JavaJavaScript or Python or equivalent experience.
• Extensive experience in designing and developingenterprise services and microservices architecture in the digitalpayments domain.
• Strong proficiency inprogramming languages such as Java Python or Go and solidexperience with frameworks such as Spring Boot orDjango.
• Proven expertise in building andintegrating payment gateways token vaults fraud management digitalwallets etc. with a deep understanding of related protocols andstandards (ex.

PCIDSS OAuth EMV etc.).

• Experience with scalable cloud platforms (ex. Azure AWSor Google Cloud) and related services such as serverless computingcontainerization (Docker Kubernetes) and infrastructureascode(Terraform CloudFormation).
• Proficient inusing modern software development tools version control systems(ex. Git) and continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI / CD)pipelines.
• Solid understanding of softwareengineering principles design patterns and best practices forbuilding highly scalable and maintainable systems.
• Excellent problemsolving and analytical skills with theability to dissect complex technical challenges and proposeinnovative solutions.
• Strong communication andleadership abilities with a proven track record of collaboratingeffectively in crossfunctional teams and mentoring juniorengineers.

Recommended

• Bachelors or MastersDegree in Computer Science or related technicaldiscipline.
• Equivalent experience.
• Prior experience successfully managing the delivery oftechnology solutions.
• Consulting or Leadershipexperience.
• Previous work with both legacy andemerging technology solutions.
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