Principal Engineer
Veem is a payments company offering domestic and international payables and receivables services. Its platform supports bank transfers, cards, multi-currency wallets, payment automation, invoicing, and accounting integrations for businesses.
Funding history
About Veem
Veem provides a business payments platform for sending, receiving, managing, and automating domestic and international payments across more than 100 countries and 80 currencies. Its offerings include bank transfers, debit and credit card payments, virtual cards, virtual bank accounts, a multi-currency wallet, payment tracking, approvals, mass payments, invoices, payment links, and accounting integrations. It also provides partner solutions for financial institutions, payment service providers, AP/AR platforms, freelance marketplaces, and accountants.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define long-term architecture for payments, platform, data, integration, and operational systems. You will design secure, resilient distributed systems, lead cross-functional modernization initiatives, establish engineering standards, and guide AI, stablecoin, blockchain, and payment-technology decisions. You will mentor senior engineers and translate business priorities into practical technical solutions.
Requirements
- Approximately 12–18 years of software engineering experience
- Experience at Staff+, Senior Staff, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent level
- Expertise in distributed systems, backend architecture, API, microservice, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven systems
- Hands-on software engineering and architecture capability
- Experience leading complex initiatives across multiple teams
- Experience influencing technical strategy without direct authority
- Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or a high-scale regulated technology environment
- Understanding of scalability, data consistency, reliability, security, fault tolerance, and production operations
- Communication skills for explaining technical trade-offs to executive and non-technical audiences
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term technical architecture across payment, platform, data, integration, and operational systems
- Design scalable, resilient, secure, highly available distributed systems
- Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives
- Drive modernization, scalability improvements, and technical-debt reduction
- Establish standards for architecture, reliability, observability, security, testing, and operations
- Lead AI transformation initiatives
- Design and implement AI-agent, LLM-workflow, automation, and developer-tooling systems
- Shape strategy for stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and 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 technical solutions
Benefits
- Equity participation