Principal Engineer

Summary

Join Avara, a company building innovative blockchain products, as a Principal Engineer. You will lead the design and implementation of regulated payments infrastructure, ensuring seamless money movement across Avara's products and partner ecosystem. This role requires a minimum of 3 years in a Staff or Principal Engineering role, preferably with Fintech and Payments experience. You will oversee the end-to-end process of designing, implementing, and deploying regulated payments infrastructure, focusing on speed, clear communication, and zero-defects. Avara fosters a collaborative and diverse work environment. The ideal candidate possesses advanced proficiency in TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, and Restful and distributed backend system design.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years in a Staff or Principal Engineering role, with a strong preference for experience in Fintech and Payments
• Advanced proficiency in TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, Restful and distributed backend system design
• Solid grasp of transaction processing and ledgering and asynchronous risk monitoring
• Experience building mission critical, API-first, services in a production environment for enterprise-scale customers
• Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Driven by the opportunity to make decentralized finance the backbone of fintech and to contribute meaningfully to its practical application in the real world

Responsibilities

• Oversee the end-to-end process of designing, implementing, and deploying regulated payments infrastructure
• Ask questions, uncover edge cases, and tend to our documentation
• Go fast, be agile, but also know when to slow down. As a regulated payments business, we need to take some decisions slowly in order to design for zero-defects and massive scale
• Obsess over transaction processing speed and clear communication with Customers. This is how we build trust
• Maintain short feedback cycles through communicating priorities, failing forward, and learn as a team