Principal Software Engineer / Architect

Do you want to be part of the embedded finance revolution?

We at Q2-BaaS are busy building the next generation Banking as a Service technology platform that scales to support the company's rapid growth. And we need superstars like you.

We are looking to hire an experienced Principal Software Engineer / Architect to be one of the core members of our engineering team. Ideally, you are skilled in building massively scalable payment infrastructure and/or transaction systems. You have seen the problems associated with rapid scale and you are excited to solve those problems. More importantly, you are driven by an opportunity to have a massive impact in how future financial products are built.

 You will drive various architecture initiatives and provide technical guidance to a team, building a new Banking as a Service(BaaS) platform. We have pretty lofty goals of supporting the needs of millions of customers transacting billions of transactions that feed into compliance, analytics, risk, and third-party systems - supported by a high-availability, cloud-based architecture.

As the team grows, you will play the role of a mentor, leading others in designing scalable and maintainable code and cloud-native architectures that scale to fulfill our growing needs. You will collaborate with teams at Q2-BaaS (and with our partners) to ensure that the platform works seamlessly for the product's needs

Our ideal candidate is someone with immense technical expertise, self-motivated and will drive innovations and solutions for our product.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Selects architectural approaches to complex Business or Engineering problems. 
• Defines product requirements based on business needs. 
• Invents new and innovative approaches to solve advanced issues.
• Design, implement, integrate, and test software solutions of moderate complexity comprised of Windows- and/or Linux-based front-end and back-end components that interact with end users and integrate with internal and external services.
• Support, maintain, and resolve advanced problems for custom features in live production systems, with occasional on-call availability
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.
• Assist and mentor teammates to provide technical leadership and evangelize best practices.

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of 15 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 12+ years of experience; or equivalent related work experience.
• Proficiency in C#(desired) and SQL(required)
• Prior experience in massively scalable payment/transactional platform architectures is highly desired
• Prior experience in .NET is highly desired
• Expert level experience in cloud native architectures is required. Experience on either AWS or Azure is highly desired
• Expert level development experience.
• Passion for applying good design principals while exercising pragmatism to keep deadlines.
• Experience in all aspects of the software development life cycle.
• Experience engineering software in a micro services based architecture.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Expert level in contributing to an Agile development environment.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Availability for on-call/emergency support
• A positive outlook to life and ability to guide and mentor junior developers is required.