Principal Engineer

Required skills/experience

• Good understanding of low level and hight level design of distributed systems.

• Comfortable in developing systems with mainstream programming languages e.g. Java(preferred), Golang (good to have)

• Understands the code development life cycle, important checks of every stage and can collaborate with stakeholders to ensure them.

• Well versed with practices of good code development and code review and can ensure teams participating in it.

• Product Thinking: Uncover the why,challenge assumptions and turn ambiguity into simple, high-impact solutions that translate intent into action.

• Innovation: Challenge the status quo, simplify complexity, embrace new technologies, and turn curiosity → experiment → insight → solution into elegant, reliable, scalable systems that create lasting value.

• AI Engineering: Build practical expertise in AI, LLMs, agents, automation, and emerging technologies to transform engineering workflows with context-aware, evidence-based, reliable, validated, and safely controlled AI solutions.

• Comfortable with writing and reviewing technical design documents.

• Can contribute to cross functional architectural and design discussions which spans across teams.

• Should be able to evaluate and comment on priorities of the team from technical debt and product requirement stand point.

• Can lead by example, mentor and inspire a group of skilled engineers to achieve business critical goals.

• Good understanding of agile development methodology.

• Agile and fast learner to adapt with the requirements of the product and engineering.

Experience: 12+ years

Who you will do:

• Writing high-quality code, participating in code reviews, designing/architecting systems of varying complexity and scope

• Opportunity to be part of a passionate, purpose driven team of highly skilled individuals which is on mission it making it one of leading Fintech companies of the world.

• Build your legacy while big systems are in the making.

• Build highly scalable, resilient and resource efficient systems which handle the load of more than 40mil requests a day and aims to grow 2X every year.

• Learn and contribute towards some of the best engineer practices.

• Use, propose and potentially contribute to best of the open source technology stacks.

• Lead teams and projects which make impact in the tech community and society.

• Evangelise your ideas which you believe in, and learn about how to make them a reality.

• Become a mentor and be mentored by some of the best.

• Publish your work and learnings in terms of blogs, paper or present them in tech forums.