Principal Engineer
Tazapay is a global payments company providing cross-border money movement.
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About Tazapay
Tazapay provides regulated global payment infrastructure for businesses operating across borders. Its unified platform supports payment acceptance, stablecoin-to-fiat conversion, multi-currency business accounts, treasury and FX management, local payment methods, hosted checkout, payment links, API integrations, and payouts in more than 100 currencies. The company also offers white-label collection and payout services for platforms, along with buyer protection, compliance, risk management, and fraud protection. Its stated customers include fintechs, Web3 platforms, marketplaces, travel companies, online gaming businesses, SaaS platforms, and digital-product providers.
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About the Role
You will design and evolve the architecture of distributed systems powering global payment flows, settlement and financial infrastructure. You will act as a technical leader across teams, stay hands-on in critical systems, drive AI-assisted engineering practices, solve system-level bottlenecks, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- 12+ years building and operating large-scale backend systems
- Prior experience as Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer or equivalent
- Strong hands-on backend experience with Golang or Java, Python, or C++
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, consistency models and asynchronous architectures
- Experience operating high-availability services on AWS, GCP or Azure
- Experience designing data models with relational and NoSQL databases
- Strong technical communication skills
- Preferred: Go concurrency and performance tuning expertise, fintech and payments experience, digital assets, stablecoins, crypto or blockchain expertise
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve architecture of distributed systems for global payment flows, settlement and financial infrastructure
- Define architectural standards and engineering best practices across teams
- Contribute hands-on to critical parts of the system
- Drive AI-native engineering practices and implement AI/ML/agentic opportunities
- Collaborate with engineering, product and business leaders to translate requirements into technical systems
- Solve bottlenecks in performance, reliability, scalability and operational complexity
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders