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We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions-creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.\nOur Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth-turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.\nPrincipal Engineer - Candescent Consumer Platform (Mobile Focus)\nLocation: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid) or San Ramon, CA (Hybrid)\nReports To: VP of Engineering / Director of Engineering\nDepartment: Engineering\nWe are seeking a Principal Engineer - Consumer Platform (Mobile Focus) to lead the architectural evolution of our flagship digital banking platform. This is a highly strategic technical leadership role responsible for defining the long-term technology vision, driving platform modernization, and ensuring the scalability, performance, and reliability of our mobile-first consumer experience.\nAs a Principal Engineer, you will influence engineering strategy across multiple teams, guide architectural decisions, mentor senior technical talent, and help shape the future of how millions of consumers interact with their financial institutions.\nPosition Summary\nThe Principal Engineer will serve as a technical authority for Candescent's Consumer Platform, with a primary focus on mobile architecture, platform scalability, and modernization initiatives. This role will drive the evolution of our multi-tenant SaaS platform while establishing engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices that enable rapid innovation and sustainable growth.\nThe ideal candidate combines deep expertise in mobile and distributed systems architecture with strong leadership skills and a proven track record of building modern, cloud-native platforms in regulated environments.\nWhat You'll Do\nPlatform Architecture & Modernization\nOwn and define the technical vision and architectural roadmap for the Consumer Platform.\nLead the modernization of our cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS digital banking ecosystem.\nDesign scalable, resilient, and extensible mobile-first architectures capable of supporting significant customer and transaction growth.\nDefine architectural standards, guardrails, and best practices across mobile, web, and backend systems.\nDrive adoption of plugin-centric architectures and API-driven feature enablement models.\nGuide implementation of modular UI composition and micro frontend strategies.\nEvaluate and introduce emerging technologies that improve scalability, reliability, developer productivity, and speed to market.\nLead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and platform governance initiatives.\nMobile Platform Leadership\nServe as the technical leader for mobile application architecture across iOS and Android ecosystems.\nEstablish standards for React Native, native mobile development, and cross-platform engineering practices.\nGuide mobile platform initiatives that improve application performance, security, maintainability, and user experience.\nDrive modernization of app delivery processes, release management, and App Store / Google Play deployment automation.\nDefine mobile observability, monitoring, instrumentation, and performance measurement practices.\nEnsure seamless integration between mobile applications and backend services.\nCloud & Distributed Systems\nChampion microservices best practices including:\nAPI lifecycle management and versioning\nService discovery\nEvent-driven architectures\nObservability and telemetry\nCI/CD automation\nPlatform resiliency patterns\n\nDesign solutions that optimize performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.\nPartner with infrastructure teams to enhance Kubernetes-based deployment models and cloud-native operations.\nDrive improvements in platform availability, security posture, and cost optimization.\nData & Integration Strategy\nDefine scalable data access, caching, and synchronization strategies across mobile and backend systems.\nCollaborate with Data Engineering teams to enable analytics, personalization, and customer intelligence capabilities.\nSupport integration with platforms including Minerva, Databricks, PostgreSQL, and other enterprise data systems.\nEstablish patterns for secure and efficient access to enterprise data and services.\nLead architectural decisions involving event streaming, messaging systems, and real-time data delivery.\nEngineering Leadership\nMentor Staff Engineers, Senior Engineers, and emerging technical leaders.\nFoster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.\nConduct architectural assessments, code reviews, and technical health evaluations.\nPartner closely with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Security, Support, and Business stakeholders.\nDrive technical decision-making across cross-functional teams and programs.\nEstablish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and operational best practices.\nSecurity, Risk & Compliance\nEnsure platform architecture aligns with financial services security and compliance requirements.\nEstablish best practices for secure software development, DevSecOps, and platform governance.\nSupport compliance initiatives including SOC 2, FFIEC, GLBA, and related banking regulations.\nIntegrate security and compliance controls into engineering processes and delivery pipelines.\nTech Stack You'll Influence\nReact Native, React, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Jenkins, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, with a focus on scalable mobile architecture, cloud-native platforms, and modern engineering practices.\nQualifications\nRequired\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred.\n14+ years of software engineering experience with progressively increasing technical leadership responsibilities.\n4+ years leading architecture and platform strategy for large-scale software products.\nDeep expertise in mobile application architecture, platform development, and modernization.\nSignificant experience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms.\nStrong background in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.\nProven success building scalable microservices-based applications.\nHands-on experience with React Native and modern web technologies.\nStrong understanding of API design, integration patterns, and backend service architecture.\nExceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.\nPreferred\nExperience within fintech, digital banking, or highly regulated industries.\nExpertise in event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging platforms.\nExperience with mobile platform frameworks and reusable engineering platforms.\nKnowledge of banking, privacy, and regulatory standards including SOC 2, FFIEC, and GLBA.\nExperience leading large-scale platform transformation initiatives.\nFamiliarity with personalization, analytics, and customer engagement technologies.\nLeadership Competencies\nStrategic technical vision\nSystems thinking and architectural excellence\nInfluential leadership without direct authority\nCross-functional collaboration\nExecutive presence and communication\nMentoring and talent development\nInnovation and continuous improvement\nCustomer-centric decision making\nStatement to Third Party Agencies\nTo ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. 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