Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architect and scale an India-wide AI native lending platform disbursing billions of dollars every year.
• Drive modernization through multi-tenant architecture and onboarding simplification.
• Improve automation to 99.5%, SLA to 99.99% and payment accuracy.
• Innovate with GenAI-driven tools to reduce manual dependency across the entire loan management pipeline, starting from AI-driven bots on the website all the way to AI-driven reconciliation for finances worth billions of dollars.
• Own technical vision for highly scaled backend services, full-stack applications, and agentic tools.
• Partner with multiple CXO-level organizations to deliver cross-functional initiatives.
• Mentor and guide 120+ engineers, raising the bar for operational excellence.
• Ensure platform scalability during peak events and manage tech debt strategically.

Requirements:

• Backend: Distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, data streaming.
• Cloud: AWS services, security, compliance.
• Data: Modeling, NoSQL/NewSQL, ML integration.
• Frontend: Full-stack development for customer experience.
• Finance Domain: Payments, invoicing, tax compliance.
• Preferred Edge: ML experience, cybersecurity, E2E testing, and familiarity with financial systems.

Leadership Scope:

• Technical Vision: Own architectural decisions for highly scaled distributed systems and full-stack applications.
• Cross-Org Influence: Partner with multiple CXO-level organizations.
• Mentorship: Act as the most senior engineer for 100+ SDEs, shaping careers and raising engineering standards.
• Operational Bar: Maintain world-class reliability and scalability during peak events.

Skills

aws, backend, cloud, data streaming, distributed systems, event-driven architecture, financial systems, invoicing, microservices, payments, tax compliance