Principal Software Engineer

Our Purpose

We work to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. We cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation and delivers better business results.

Title and Summary

Principal Software Engineer

The Role: 
What’s it all about and what do we expect you to do day to day 
• Technology leader who is hands-on & and can lead a team of engineers. Expected to spend 70% of time coding/on code-related activities, and 30% coaching engineers on the team. This person is recognized as a team’s authority and technical expert who drives innovation and organizational growth through their contributions.  
• They get their adrenaline rush by coding away in IDEs. They spend the majority of their time writing non-feature code. They are hands all the time and collaborate by writing interfaces, tests (unit or acceptance), and architecture fitness functions, outside of meeting rooms. Tools like JDepend, ArchUnit, ADRs, and NetArchTest make them feel at home.  
• They implement, monitor and maintain compliance and security concerns in CI/CD pipelines to bring life to the principle of “Code is Design and Design is Code”. 
• Domain-driven design is their game. They write code to enforce the contextual mappings and aggregates for each bounded context. They drive the implementation of consumer-driven contracts to allow for the evolution and learning of the domain model with hyper-speed while meeting our promises to other teams internally and customers alike.  
• They are polyglot engineering gurus. they bring cutting-edge engineering practices to life in multiple evolving frameworks – Feature flags, fitness functions, and whatever is required to reduce the cost and increase the lifecycle value of the next feature delivered by engineering teams.  
• They love declarative paradigms and functional programming. No one can stop them from paying off technical debt and refactoring the code for better SDLC, performance, and availability.  
• Work on complex enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple services/programs and drives resolution 
• Work with business/product owners to architect and deliver new services to introduce new products and bundles 
• Participate and contribute to the team’s agile process and decisions. Understand and contribute to Prioritization. Drive prioritization decisions and trade-offs in working with product partners 
• Drive the architectural design, including dependent services, service interactions, and policies 
• Take ownership to improve the customer experience of an entire set of services/applications sold as products or bundled services 
• Contribute and lead Guild initiatives by engaging and mentoring Engineers at all levels to improve the craftmanship of Software Engineering 
• Simplify and improve the cost/benefit of a function/service/architecture strategy 
• Apply judgment and experience to balance trade-offs between competing interests 
• Venture beyond your comfort zone to take on assignments across different areas of Software Engineering 
• Take on organization-wide and public speaking engagements and publishes white papers and blogs on relevant and emerging technical topics 
• Consult across teams and across organization lines to identify synergies and reuse opportunities 
• Participate and contribute to Principal review architecture meetings and drive resolutions to enterprise-wide challenges and regulatory needs 
• Write recommendations for job promotions based on an unbiased view of one's accomplishments 
• Conduct technical interviews for hiring engineering staff and raising the performance bar 
• Identify and raise awareness of Silo-ed behaviors within the organization and teams 
 
All About You and What you need to bring: 
• Expert in building highly resilient & scalable distributed systems. Has deep exposure to various database, messaging & caching technologies. 
• Progressively grown career with proven design and development experiences in multiple languages (e.g., Java, .NET, JavaScript, SQL), secure coding standards (e.g., OWASP, CWE, SEI CERT), and vulnerability management. 
• Has an