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Principal Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Bengaluru Urban - India
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Experience Required:
10-12years
Experience Required:
Posted:
1 October 2026 (6 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
29 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
About Tazapay
Tazapay is a global cross-border payment platform that enables businesses to seamlessly transact across fiat and stablecoins. With a robust Pay-in and Pay-out network spanning multiple geographies Tazapay offers unparalleled flexibility in payment methods including named virtual accounts alternative payment methods (APMs) and stablecoins. Licensed in Singapore Canada USA and Australia Tazapay provides a fully compliant and transparent payment infrastructure that allows businesses to offer fiat and stablecoin-based transactions to their underlying clients. Its platform ensures effortless onboarding of merchants while also supporting white-label solutions empowering businesses to scale their global payments without operational complexity
With Tazapay enterprises can bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets ensuring interoperability compliance and seamless cross-border transactions at scale. We are passionate about building reliable secure and cutting-edge payment solutions that empower businesses.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to help define and scale the next generation of Tazapays global payments platform supports high-volume global payment flows across multiple currencies (fiat stablecoins and cryptocurrencies) and geographies.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on solving complex distributed systems problems in areas such as payment orchestration and routing cross-border settlement financial ledgers treasury management fraud detection AML and stablecoin infrastructure.
A key part of this role will be helping evolve our engineering practices toward AI-assisted software development and identifying where AI-driven capabilities can improve our platform.
This role requires a strong combination of deep technical expertise pragmatic system design and the ability to influence teams across the engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities
Design and evolve the architecture of distributed systems powering global payment flows settlement and financial infrastructure with strong guarantees around transactional integrity auditability security compliance and financial correctness.
Act as a technical leader across teams defining architectural standards and engineering best practices that guide the evolution of the platform across teams.
Remain hands-on in critical parts of the system contributing to architecture design and key implementations where necessary.
Drive AI-native engineering practices. Improve AI-assisted development workflows across the team. Evaluate and implement AI/ML/agentic opportunities in our product and lead implementation.
Collaborate with engineering product and business leaders to translate complex business requirements into reliable and scalable technical systems.
Identify and solve system-level bottlenecks related to performance reliability scalability and operational complexity.
Mentor and guide senior engineers and technical leaders helping raise the overall technical bar of the organization.
Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field
12 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend systems including significant experience designing distributed systems in production environments.
Prior experience as a Staff Engineer Principal Engineer or equivalent technical leadership role.
Strong hands-on experience designing and building backend systems using Golang ( our primary backend programming language) or equivalent experience in Java Python or C.
Deep understanding of distributed systems concurrency consistency models asynchronous architectures and system reliability.
Experience building and operating high-availability services in cloud environments such as AWS GCP or Azure.
Strong experience diagnosing and solving complex system problems related to performance reliability and scalability.
Experience designing data models and storage systems using relational and NoSQL databases.
Strong technical communication skills with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders across teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Deep expertise in Go concurrency patterns performance tuning and production debugging
Prior experience with fintech and payments
Proven expertise in the digital assets stable coins crypto current or block chain technologies
Tazapay is a global cross-border payment platform that enables businesses to seamlessly transact across fiat and stablecoins. With a robust Pay-in and Pay-out network spanning multiple geographies Tazapay offers unparalleled flexibility in payment methods including named virtual accounts alternative payment methods (APMs) and stablecoins. Licensed in Singapore Canada USA and Australia Tazapay provides a fully compliant and transparent payment infrastructure that allows businesses to offer fiat and stablecoin-based transactions to their underlying clients. Its platform ensures effortless onboarding of merchants while also supporting white-label solutions empowering businesses to scale their global payments without operational complexity
With Tazapay enterprises can bridge the gap between traditional finance and digital assets ensuring interoperability compliance and seamless cross-border transactions at scale. We are passionate about building reliable secure and cutting-edge payment solutions that empower businesses.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Principal Engineer to help define and scale the next generation of Tazapays global payments platform supports high-volume global payment flows across multiple currencies (fiat stablecoins and cryptocurrencies) and geographies.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on solving complex distributed systems problems in areas such as payment orchestration and routing cross-border settlement financial ledgers treasury management fraud detection AML and stablecoin infrastructure.
A key part of this role will be helping evolve our engineering practices toward AI-assisted software development and identifying where AI-driven capabilities can improve our platform.
This role requires a strong combination of deep technical expertise pragmatic system design and the ability to influence teams across the engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities
Design and evolve the architecture of distributed systems powering global payment flows settlement and financial infrastructure with strong guarantees around transactional integrity auditability security compliance and financial correctness.
Act as a technical leader across teams defining architectural standards and engineering best practices that guide the evolution of the platform across teams.
Remain hands-on in critical parts of the system contributing to architecture design and key implementations where necessary.
Drive AI-native engineering practices. Improve AI-assisted development workflows across the team. Evaluate and implement AI/ML/agentic opportunities in our product and lead implementation.
Collaborate with engineering product and business leaders to translate complex business requirements into reliable and scalable technical systems.
Identify and solve system-level bottlenecks related to performance reliability scalability and operational complexity.
Mentor and guide senior engineers and technical leaders helping raise the overall technical bar of the organization.
Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field
12 years of experience building and operating large-scale backend systems including significant experience designing distributed systems in production environments.
Prior experience as a Staff Engineer Principal Engineer or equivalent technical leadership role.
Strong hands-on experience designing and building backend systems using Golang ( our primary backend programming language) or equivalent experience in Java Python or C.
Deep understanding of distributed systems concurrency consistency models asynchronous architectures and system reliability.
Experience building and operating high-availability services in cloud environments such as AWS GCP or Azure.
Strong experience diagnosing and solving complex system problems related to performance reliability and scalability.
Experience designing data models and storage systems using relational and NoSQL databases.
Strong technical communication skills with the ability to influence engineers and stakeholders across teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Deep expertise in Go concurrency patterns performance tuning and production debugging
Prior experience with fintech and payments
Proven expertise in the digital assets stable coins crypto current or block chain technologies
Required Skills:
Principal Engineer
Required Education:
A degree in computer science software engineering information technology or similar experience
