Principal Engineer Payment Gateway Services

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Job Description

Withing Gateway Services we are building our next generation omni-commerce Gateway. We are currently hiring a Principle/Distinguished Engineer to support teams within this domain. In this role you will lead highly technical and strategic engineering initiatives on mission-critical platforms across our team, enabling every engineer to their best work.

Your role will be tasked with solving the most complex, challenging technical problems across this team to meet our demanding needs.

You will play an influential role in partnership with engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional VPs of Engineering owning technical vision and direction as well as Developer Experience.

To excel in this role, you will possess:

• Great communication skills.
• Ability to influence across teams and with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to drive vision and strategy for our overall architecture to support scale, performance, resiliency and reliability of our platform.
• Have created a reference architecture for a group of engineers to learn from, not just diagrams but code.
• Come from a technical background, extremely proficient in microservices architectures, architecture patterns, having created architectures that allow services to be shipped to production multiple times a day as independently releasable microservices.
• Be a keen coder and can roll up your sleeves and ship high quality production code for critical services.
• Be able to quickly identify problems with our current state solutions and come to solutions quickly to enable critical delivery to move.
• An evangelist who can always keep an eye on the future, and in doing so help keep our teams up to speed on the latest and greatest happenings within technology.
• Strong appreciation of Event Storming and DDD having applied these mythologies in shaping microservices architectures.  
• Experience in creating / engineering Cloud Native Architectures.

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience 
• Eight or more years of relevant experience  

Preferred Skills/Experience

• 10+ years’ experience having come from a software engineering background.
• Degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline.
• Some experience with Model Context Protocol / AI having had some experience in how this can shape the future of software engineering.
• Experience in Java within low latency environments.
• Experience of chaos engineering and patterns that ensure high uptime and resiliency.

Location Expectations:

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following (some may vary based on role, location or hours):

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities

• Adoption assistance

• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law

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