Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.
- Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to the development of monitoring and alerting systems.
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
- Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for BaaS platform, including generating documentation around architectural and design options analysis and decisions.
- Champion emerging technologies evaluation and adoption.
- Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features/functionality.
- Create systems that are durable and flexible by developing for change – favor configurability over customization.
Required Qualifications: Education and experience
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field, plus six (6) years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation.
- A strong portfolio showing secure, standards-compliant code across multiple platforms, including the Microsoft stack and open-source technologies.
Experience must include:
- Languages and frameworks: C#, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server.
- Cloud: Designing, developing, and hosting cloud-native applications in Azure or AWS. This includes Azure native services such as APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault, plus container technologies and caching frameworks.
- APIs and web services: RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications. Also, SOAP and XML/JSON business object representations.
- Architecture: Designing and building microservices frameworks, event-driven patterns (Service Bus, Event Hubs), and software design patterns and anti-patterns. Writing code for scalable, reliable systems.
- DevOps and delivery: Git and GitHub, CI/CD processes, build tools (TeamCity), pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
- Observability: Implementing and using observability dashboards and platforms (Datadog, Grafana).
- Methodology: Agile development, including Scrum and Extreme Programming.
- Security and compliance: Security best practices in financial services and compliance standards (PCI DSS, SOC 2).