Principal Software Engineer, Plastiq Pay

At Plastiq, we offer an engineering culture that's diverse, supportive, and high-energy. We provide people with the opportunity to thrive in an environment that unlocks their maximum potential. We believe in breaking barriers, embracing failure, and challenging ourselves to do what others have told us we cannot. That means learning and growing together and challenging each other to be better engineers and humans. You are a key technology reference within our product engineering team and you’ll play an important role in ensuring the scalability of our tech that drives our business, product, and platform.

As Principal Software Engineer, Plastiq Pay you share our mission to help small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) succeed. You are passionate about enabling SMBs to overcome cash flow inefficiencies by allowing them to unlock existing credit and preserve their cash on hand. You will define and lead work breakdown, execution, and delivery for large epics for our main Plastiq Payments product - which millions of SMBs and consumers use to pay their vendors via cash or credit nationally, and internationally in more than 20 currencies. This means providing architectural influence across multiple domains and enforcing performance, security, and architectural standards. You will collaborate closely with product and design teams to deliver best in class experiences to our end users.

Your Responsibilities

• Design and code with architectural level considerations in mind, including simplicity, extensibility, testability, resiliency, performance, and security
• Articulate alternatives across both new and proven technology solutions
• Hands-on development of code, complete with automated tests that are scalable and maintainablePerform code reviews with helpful and meaningful feedback for your teammates
• Set the bar for documentation, coding standards, security, performance, maintainability, resiliency, reliability, testing, and production visibility (logging/monitoring/alerting)
• Own team's domain area including design, development, release strategies, experiment strategies, production visibility (logging/monitoring/alerting), escalation policies, and run books
• Own what you build in production and be an ambassador of Quality

Your Experience

• 10+ years of professional software development experience which includes 5+ years experience creating and supporting highly interactive data driven applications
• 5+ years of team leadership experience
• Strong experience with React, Redux, Node.js/JavaScript, GraphQL, and REST API design
• Experience with Java a significant plus
• Solid understanding of how browsers work with expert level knowledge of maintaining complex distributed frontend applications
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL) and with NoSQL stores like MongoDB
• Experience with Serverless architecture, Microservices and Containerization
• Experience with AWS or similar cloud computing platforms
• Experience with concurrency, multi-threading and event-driven architectures

Plastiq's Tech Stack

• Plastiq operates a CI/CD model and releases code to production frequently. We are building cloud-native micro-services with a component-based frontend written in React.js, and a Node.js backend, which sits in front of our Payments Processing Platform built in Java.
• For our testing platforms we use Jest for API & unit backend tests, cypress.io for frontend testing, and Gitlab for our continuous integration and delivery.
• Plastiq is powered by data. Our data pipeline continuously streams data to Snowflake via AWS Kinesis so our Data Engineering and Analytics team can produce machine-learning models that help drive our business.