Principal Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build large-scale, distributed backend systems that are highly scalable, reliable, and available.

• Own and drive architecture, system design, and key technical decisions across critical backend components.

• Work hands-on with complex production systems and critical services.

• Solve challenging problems involving concurrency, consistency, distributed processing, and asynchronous architectures.

• Improve system performance, scalability, reliability, fault tolerance, and availability.

• Identify and resolve complex production issues through deep troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

• Establish engineering standards, best practices, and technical guidelines across teams.

• Mentor Senior Engineers, Staff Engineers, and technical leads and influence engineering practices.

• Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Evaluate and implement AI-assisted development tools and AI/ML capabilities where they provide meaningful engineering or product value.

Must-Have Technical Skills

• 12+ years of backend software engineering experience.

• Strong hands-on expertise in Golang (Go).

• Candidates with strong expertise in Java, Python, or C++ may also be considered.

• Deep understanding of:

  • Distributed Systems

  • Concurrency and Parallel Processing

  • Consistency Models

  • Asynchronous Architecture

  • Fault Tolerance and High Availability

• Strong System Design and Software Architecture experience.

• Proven experience designing and operating high-scale production systems.

• Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform:

  • AWS

  • GCP

  • Azure

• Strong hands-on experience with Relational and NoSQL databases.

• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across performance, scalability, reliability, and production issues.

• Previous experience in a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent technical leadership role.

• Excellent technical communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Skills / Domain Experience

• Experience in FinTech, Payments, Banking, or Financial Platforms.

• Experience with Cryptocurrency, Stablecoins, Blockchain, or Web3.

• Strong experience in Go performance tuning and production debugging.

• Exposure to AI/ML, Generative AI, or Agentic AI.

• Experience using AI-assisted software development tools and workflows.

• Experience building high-throughput, low-latency, transaction-heavy systems.