Principal Software Engineer, Funding

The Role: Principal Software Engineer

This role reports to the Engineering head of Funding. This is a strategic and influential position responsible for driving engineering excellence, helping shape technical strategy, and providing technical leadership across the funding products - both Crypto and Fiat. This individual serves as the technical arm of the funding team, and a partner with other engineering leaders across the organization in contributing to the company's success by ensuring that technology aligns with the business goals.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Strategy and Vision:
• Work with technology leaders across the company to develop a strategy and vision that drives engineering excellence.
• Help ensure close alignment of the technical vision and strategy with the company's overall business objectives.
• Assess emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage.
• Technical Leadership:
• Act as a technical thought leader and a mentor to engineering teams, fostering a culture of excellence, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers, peer leaders, and architects to ensure high-quality technical solutions.
• Excellence in Engineering:
• Drive engineering excellence by working with product development and security to establish best practices, coding standards, and mechanisms to ensure consistently excellent quality, reliability, and security Funding services and products.
• Promote the adoption of modern development methodologies and tools to improve engineering productivity.
• Architectural Oversight:
• Review and provide architectural guidance for major engineering initiatives, ensuring that they align with the company's long-term technical goals.
• Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to design scalable, maintainable, and secure systems.
• Technical Due Diligence:
• Conduct technical due diligence for potential acquisitions, partnerships, or strategic initiatives, providing assessments and recommendations to the Funding leadership team.
• Cross-functional Collaboration:
• Collaborate closely with other departments, such as product management, sales, and marketing, to ensure that technical decisions align with market needs and customer expectations.
• Serve as a bridge between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Technical Evangelism:
• Represent the company at technical conferences, industry events, and in interactions with partners and customers.
• Promote the company's technical expertise and thought leadership in the industry.
• Reporting and Communication:
• Provide regular updates and reports on the status of technical initiatives, challenges, risks and progress toward technical goals.
• Communicate complex technical concepts in a clear and understandable manner to non-technical stakeholders and the top management team.
• Crisis Management and Resolution:
• Play a critical role in managing and resolving major technical incidents and crises, providing leadership and expertise to minimize downtime and impact.
• Help evaluate and choose between alternative technical strategies, implementation methodologies and engineering practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• Extensive experience (10+ years) in software development at a leading software company with a strong background in software architecture and design.
• Proficiency in programming and development technologies.
• Excellent communication skills.
• A strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and a technical visionary who can guide the company's technical direction and inspire engineering teams to achieve excellence. 
• Proven track record of technical leadership and a deep understanding of the engineering process, tools and technologies for building internet scale geo-distributed software services.  
• Additionally, the Principal Engineer should foster collaboration, innovation, and a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering organization.