Principal Engineer

Our client is a fast growing series B fintech head quartered in NYC. They are passionate about helping every small business in America.

As a Principal Engineer you will own and drive large technical initiatives end to end. This role is adecuado for someone who thrives in startup environments, is comfortable working with high autonomy, and can take an idea from a vague business problem all the way to a scalable, production-grade system. You will act as the technical owner for key initiatives—setting direction, making architecture decisions, writing critical code, and ensuring successful delivery without requiring heavy oversight.

Responsibilities
- Own full-stack initiatives end to end—from problem definition and architecture to implementation, deployment, and production support.
- Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap aligned with fast-moving startup goals
- Design and build scalable, secure, and reliable frontend and backend systems with minimal dependencies on other teams.




- Lead development independently while collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Business stakeholders.
- Make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions balancing speed, quality, and long-term scalability.
- Write and review high-impact code across frontend and backend systems
- Identify and solve ambiguous, complex technical problems with limited requirements or constraints.
- Establish lightweight but effective engineering best practices, coding standards, and processes suitable for a startup environment.
- Drive performance, scalability, reliability, and security improvements as the product and user base grow.
- Own production readiness, monitoring, incident response, and post-mortems for the systems you build.
- Author clear technical documentation, RFCs, and architecture decisions to enable future scaling of the team.
- Mentor engineers as the team grows and help set the technical bar for the organization.
- Evaluate build vs. buy decisions and

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