Principal Software Engineer, GO Payments

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the design, development, and implementation of intricate technical solutions that satisfy functional, performance, and security requirements.

• Convert vague business and product needs into precise technical plans and effectively execute them.

• Produce high-quality, maintainable, and testable code while taking ownership of the most complex or critical components.

• Participate in code and design reviews as an active peer contributor.

• Collaborate with product, architecture, QA, and DevOps teams to ensure comprehensive delivery quality.

• Promote engineering best practices, coding standards, and CI/CD disciplines.

• Proactively identify and address technical risks and dependencies.

• Assess and implement emerging technologies and tools, including AI-assisted development.

• Adapt to various domains such as Licensing, Registrations, Reservations, and others as project priorities evolve.

• Provide mentorship to senior and staff-level engineers without formal reporting authority.

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, PCI-compliant payment and transaction-processing systems.

• Integrate with external payment gateways and processors, ensuring transaction integrity, reconciliation, and scalability.

• Collaborate with compliance and product stakeholders regarding payment industry regulations and security standards like PCI DSS.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder.

• Strong proficiency in C# and .NET.

• Front-end experience with frameworks such as Angular, React, or Blazor.

• Experience with RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS).

• Proficient in relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and ORMs (e.g., Entity Framework).

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).

• Over 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including establishing technical direction across multiple teams.

• Significant experience within the fintech sector is essential, particularly in building or maintaining payment and transaction-processing software.

• Knowledge of payment gateways/processors, PCI DSS, and transaction reconciliation is highly advantageous.

• Preferred: experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), contributions to open-source projects, or technical blogging.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance, with some plans fully covered for the employee (family members can be added at a discounted rate).

• Vision insurance fully covered for the employee (family members can be added at a discounted rate).

• Dental insurance available for purchase.

• Flexible/open paid time off (PTO) policy (available after 30 days of continuous service).

• Nine (9) paid holidays.

• 401(k) plan with matching company contributions.

• Annual year-end performance bonuses.

• Up to 8 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Life insurance fully covered by the company.

• Long-term disability insurance fully covered by the company.

• Free Udemy account for continuous professional development and learning.