Principal Engineer, Card Readers Team

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement technical strategies aimed at addressing intricate business challenges, utilizing data and customer insights to prioritize significant enhancements.

• Establish foundational technical and delivery principles that shape engineering practices throughout the wider engineering organization.

• Design, architect, and develop robust, high-performance applications utilizing Kotlin, ensuring optimization for security, speed, availability, and reliability.

• Elevate standards as a high-throughput, hands-on code contributor exemplifying excellence.

• Guide agile development methodologies, encompassing sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Mentor and support engineers, nurturing a culture focused on continuous improvement, inclusivity, and engineering excellence.

• Cultivate and sustain strong partnerships across various business lines, ensuring alignment of technical solutions with strategic goals.

• Utilize advanced AI tools to enhance your development workflow, boost velocity, and help pioneer innovative building methods, contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity within the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven ability to spearhead large, cross-team platform initiatives, establishing technical direction that extends beyond a single team or service.

• Expert-level knowledge in Kotlin, Java, and/or JVM languages, with significant achievements in multi-threading/concurrency (extensive experience with coroutines is a plus).

• Proficient understanding of card payments, especially EMV standards and technologies.

• Experience in managing a large (Android) project/codebase, with a focus on clear domain boundaries, modularity, reusability, and testability.

• Documented success in executing complex and robust SDK integrations.

• In-depth knowledge of security and key management best practices.

• Experience in designing public APIs for seamless consumption.

• Proficiency in observability, monitoring, and alerting for intricate user-device interactions.

• Strong capability in mentoring a development team on best practices.

• Openness and enthusiasm for AI tools to enhance research and development productivity.

• Exceptional communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills, leading others by setting a positive example.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits packages.

• Cash compensation (overtime, bonuses/commissions where applicable).

• Equity options and additional benefits.