Principal Engineer - Backend

• Drive Architectural Vision: Define and evolve architectural patterns across teams. Ensure choices today won’t become regrets tomorrow by designing with extensibility and scale in mind.
• Solve for Complexity, Not Simplicity: Tackle systemic and ambiguous problems across domains – from low-latency order execution to real-time data processing and observability.
• Technical Leadership Without Authority: Influence tech decisions across pods without needing direct reporting lines. Provide architectural reviews, hands-on POCs, and be a trusted voice across teams.
• Raise the Engineering Bar: Mentor senior engineers, guide them on trade-offs, and instill engineering rigor across the organization. You’re not just writing code, you’re multiplying impact.
• Strategic Alignment: Collaborate with Product, Business, and Engineering stakeholders to align long-term tech investments with business bets.
• Champion Engineering Excellence: Continuously improve engineering practices — from CI/CD, infra as code, to observability and incident response.

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in backend/platform engineering, with a track record of driving architectural decisions at org-level scale.
• Expertise in designing and operating distributed systems (think microservices, event-driven architectures, or CQRS patterns).
• Experience with multi-region HA, horizontal scaling, and managing technical debt pragmatically.
• Proven ability to navigate trade-offs in system design, security, data consistency, and latency.
• You’ve led cross-functional initiatives involving multiple pods/teams and seen them through from conception to production.
• Strong programming expertise in one or more languages – e.g., Go, Java, Kotlin, or similar.
• Curious, low-ego, and outcome-driven. You make others better just by working with you.

• Fintech domain experience (wealth, trading, payments etc.).
• Experience with Kubernetes, Kafka, and modern cloud-native infra stacks.

The Syfe Advantages:

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  Annual learning allowance for work related online courses and books

• Annual recreational allowance

• Allowance for home-office setup

• Latest M1 Macbook Pro + as required hardware and software

• Best of all, our speciality is helping people manage their money. We will help you learn how to manage your own money like a pro

• Medical Insurance