Principal Software Engineer

About Us:

Finix is on a mission to create the most accessible fintech market in history.

To do so, we are building the global operating system for fintech.

We’re rewriting the financial services industry, one API at a time, to lower barriers to entry, drive competition, and make the financial system more equitable and accessible to all businesses around the world. 

Finix is unique in the market.

We build payments infrastructure for vertically-focused software companies (think restaurant, yoga studio and winery software) and fintech providers so they can own and monetize payments without the heavy lift of building complex systems from scratch or relying entirely on disjointed third-party services.

Our job is to make our customers’ lives easier by making payments invisible.

The Engineering team owns the delivery and stability of our product end-to-end.

The Engineering team owns our customers’ ability to capture revenue through our platform.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for leading and influencing the technical direction of the company and the engineering organization.

You will have broad autonomy and responsibility for formulating the best solution possible and working with your peers to deliver your vision.

Finix needs your exceptional technical acumen, attention to detail, and obsession with building quality software that is robust, scalable, highly available, yet elegantly simple to use.

You Will

• Deep dive into our customers’ needs and work with product management to define new services. 
• Own the technical vision, implementation, best practices, and infrastructure within your domain. 
• Develop close relationships with product management and peer engineers. 
• Become an expert in your payments domain and mentor software engineers. 
• Proactively improve our architecture, frameworks, tooling, automation, and best practices.

You Are

• Comfortable continuously delivering code, infrastructure, and automated-tests, and test infrastructure throughout the product development lifecycle. 
• Able to lead proposals, design and architect big systems through research into use cases 
• Obsessed with finding edge cases, understanding requirements, and design implications.
• Proactive in monitoring running systems and troubleshooting production issues. 
• Committed to communicating and working cross-functionally with other teams to ensure the delivery of quality code and features.

You Have

• Have 10+ years of experience and several life-cycles of designing and building systems using Java
• Extensive experience implementing secure APIs, highly available and observable services.
• Influenced and set the technical direction for engineering teams at a company-wide level. 
• Strong multitasking skills and can manage competing priorities. 
• Raised the bar on several projects you were involved in.

Finix is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity.

Applicants Only: External recruiting agency resume submissions will not be accepted.