Principal Engineer

About the role

The Principal Engineer will lead large scale modernization initiatives transforming legacy banking capabilities into resilient, cloud native, and AI enabled platforms. The role involves providing technical leadership across complex modernization programs, guiding engineering teams through legacy transformation, leveraging AI driven engineering practices to accelerate delivery, and ensuring solutions are designed for resilience, scalability, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across complex modernization programs
• Drive the evolution of critical business capabilities into scalable microservices, event driven architectures, and modern data platforms
• Define target state architectures
• Guide engineering teams through legacy transformation
• Leverage AI driven engineering practices to accelerate delivery
• Ensure solutions are designed for resilience, scalability, and long-term maintainability
• Translate complex legacy business processes into modern, future ready architectures

Requirements

• 7+ years of Engineering experience
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in Java and Spring Boot based application development
• 5+ years of microservices architecture, API design, and distributed systems
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing event driven architectures using Kafka or similar messaging platforms
• 2+ years of experience with containerization and cloud native deployment patterns using Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, or similar platforms

Desired Qualifications

• Experience leading or contributing to large-scale mainframe modernization and cloud-native transformation initiatives
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevSecOps best practices
• Proven ability to reverse engineer complex legacy systems and business rules to design target-state microservices and domain-driven architectures
• Experience modernizing mission-critical banking or financial services applications
• Knowledge of domain-driven design (DDD), event sourcing, and scalable distributed systems patterns
• Experience working in hybrid legacy and cloud environments while maintaining synchronization and operational resilience across platforms
• Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate modernization, code analysis, testing, and developer productivity
• Experience working with both relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server or similar) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra, DynamoDB, or similar)
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills in large scale enterprise environments
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, and business teams

Pay Range

$159,000.00 - $279,000.00

Benefits

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement