Principal Engineer

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About the role

  • Principal Engineer shaping Veem’s AI-enabled global B2B payments architecture. Leading distributed systems, modernization, stablecoin, blockchain, and technical transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Define and drive Veem’s long-term technical architecture across payments, platform, data, integration, and operational systems
  • Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available distributed systems for global B2B payments
  • Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems
  • Drive modernization, platform scalability, and technical-debt reduction
  • Establish standards for architecture, reliability, observability, security, testing, and operational excellence
  • Lead AI transformation initiatives across engineering and operations
  • Design and implement AI-agent, LLM, intelligent-automation, and AI-assisted developer-tooling systems
  • Shape strategy around stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and modern payment rails
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, settlement mechanisms, fintech protocols, and platform investments
  • Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders
  • Advise executive and engineering leadership
  • Translate business priorities into scalable, practical, commercially valuable technical solutions
  • During the first year, understand Veem’s platform, architecture, customers, payment flows, and business strategy
  • Establish relationships across Engineering, Product, Security, Compliance, Data, Operations, and executive leadership
  • Identify architectural risks, constraints, and opportunities
  • Create technical direction for high-priority initiatives
  • Lead or materially influence platform, AI, payment, and modernization programs
  • Improve architecture and technical decision-making consistency
  • Introduce AI capabilities improving engineering productivity or operational performance
  • Define Veem’s technical approach to stablecoins and emerging payment infrastructure
  • Deliver measurable improvements in scalability, reliability, developer productivity, or platform capability

Requirements

  • Approximately 12–18 years of software engineering experience
  • Staff+, Senior Staff, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent-level experience
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, backend architecture, APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven systems
  • Strong hands-on software engineering and architecture capabilities
  • Experience leading technically complex initiatives across multiple teams
  • Ability to influence technical strategy without direct authority
  • Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or another high-scale, highly regulated technology environment
  • Understanding of scalability, data consistency, reliability, security, fault tolerance, and production operations
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs to executive and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous, entrepreneurial environment
  • Preferred: B2B or cross-border payments experience
  • Preferred: payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, ledgering, treasury, foreign exchange, or financial APIs
  • Preferred: AI agents, LLM integrations, intelligent automation, machine learning platforms, or AI-enabled products
  • Preferred: stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, digital wallets, crypto payments, or digital assets
  • Preferred: experience at a modern fintech, payments, technology, or AI-native organization
  • Technical environment includes AWS, GCP, or Azure; distributed and event-driven architectures; backend platforms, APIs, microservices; messaging, streaming, and data systems; AI/LLM tooling; blockchain, stablecoin, and payment infrastructure; observability, reliability, security, and platform tooling

Benefits

  • Equity participation
  • Competitive compensation
  • Opportunity to work on AI, stablecoins, blockchain, and emerging financial technology
  • Executive visibility and influence on long-term product and technology direction
  • Hands-on technical impact
  • Entrepreneurial environment
  • Opportunity to mentor and develop senior engineering talent

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformMicroservicesRuby on Rails

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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