Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer

We're partnering with an innovative payments business that's building highly scalable, resilient platforms powering millions of transactions. They're looking for a Principal Engineer to provide technical leadership, shape engineering strategy, and solve complex distributed systems challenges.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll influence architecture, mentor senior engineers, and drive engineering excellence across multiple teams while remaining close to the code.

What you'll bring:

• Extensive experience building large-scale distributed systems on the JVM (Java, Kotlin or Scala)
• Strong software architecture and system design expertise
• Experience designing high-performance, resilient microservices
• Cloud-native development (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Event-driven architecture and messaging technologies (Kafka or similar)
• A track record of influencing technical direction across engineering teams
• Previous experience within payments, fintech or other high-throughput transaction environments is highly desirable

What you'll be doing:

• Define technical strategy and architectural direction
• Lead the delivery of scalable, secure payment solutions
• Mentor senior engineers and raise engineering standards
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on long-term technology decisions
• Drive performance, reliability and operational excellence across critical systems

If you're an experienced Principal Engineer looking to make a significant impact within a fast-growing payments business, I'd love to hear from you.