Principal Financial Services Engineer
PadSplitCo-living Marketplace company
Atlanta, United StatesLead
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About the role
TL;DR
Lead the architecture and development of secure, scalable financial systems for money movement.
- •PadSplit is seeking a Principal Financial Services Engineer to lead the technical vision and architecture for their money movement systems.
- •This role is crucial for ensuring secure, reliable, and compliant financial infrastructure as the company scales.
- •Key Responsibilities Define and evolve the architecture, strategy, and roadmap for PadSplit's financial services domain.
- •Design and build secure, scalable systems for payments, billing, collections, and ledger management.
- •Lead integrations with banks, payment processors, and financial service providers.
- •Establish and drive best practices around reliability, observability, and financial accuracy.
- •Mentor senior and staff engineers through architecture reviews and technical guidance.
- •Requirements Significant experience designing and scaling payment systems, billing platforms, ledgers, or fintech infrastructure.
- •Deep expertise in Python and Django, with experience in complex backend services.
- •Hands-on experience with ACH, card payments, payment processors, and financial APIs.
- •Expertise with PostgreSQL and designing systems for reconciliation and auditability.
- •Proven experience building distributed, fault-tolerant systems on AWS.
Required skills
PythonDjangoPostgreSQLAWSREST APIMicroservicesTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
JavaScriptReact
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
Fully remote position, Competitive compensation package including an equity incentive plan and company-wide bonus opportunity, National medical, dental, and vision healthcare plans, Company provided life insurance policy, Optional accidental insurances, FSA, and DCFSA benefits, Unlimited paid-time (PTO) policy with eleven (11) company-observed holidays, 401(k) plan, Twelve (12) weeks of paid time off for both birth and non-birth parents
Tech stack
PythonDjangoJavaScriptReactPostgreSQLAWSREST API