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Senior Principal Engineer

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Salary Estimate

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Seniority

Principal

Tech stacks

Software Development
DevOps
Continuous Integration
+30

Visa

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Permanent role
3 days ago
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SENIOR PRINCIPAL ENGINEER

General Function / Summary_:

_The Principal Software Engineer serves as a senior technical leader focused on driving the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of SmartPay Leasing’s development and operations infrastructure. This role blends hands-on engineering with strategic oversight, guiding DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and system observability. As a cross-functional partner to Engineering, Product, and Security teams, the Principal Engineer ensures our platforms are stable, performant, and built to scale. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, a collaborative mindset, and a passion for automating complexity to accelerate delivery and improve system resilience.

Essential Duties:

  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable software, systems, and infrastructure based on product needs and architecture
  • Lead DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, monitoring, and incident response
  • Drive continuous improvement in system reliability, performance, and efficiency
  • Evaluate, implement, and optimize tools to enhance development and deployment workflows
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams to support agile delivery and ensure software quality
  • Develop and execute automated testing frameworks to validate functionality and performance
  • Enhance and maintain existing software, resolving defects and improving integrations
  • Translate business requirements into scalable, high-quality solutions
  • Mentor engineers and promote best practices in coding, testing, and operations

Minimum Education and Experience Required:

  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred), with 8+ years in software engineering and 3+ in DevOps or infrastructure roles
  • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), containers (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Deep experience with CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, scalable distributed systems, and Java technologies (Java SE/EE, Spring)
  • Proven ability to design enterprise applications, lead cross-functional technical initiatives, and mentor teams
  • Strong problem-solving, system architecture, performance tuning, and communication skills

Physical Demands:

  • Standard office working environment, remote eligible.
  • Extended viewing of computer screens and extended typing.

Travel:

  • Willingness to travel for field visits, events, or meetings as needed

Supervisory Functions: No

_All the above duties and responsibilities are essential job functions. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. This position description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements. Associates may be required to perform these and any other job-related instructions as requested by their manager, subject to reasonable accommodation. Nothing in this document alters the at-will nature of employment with SP Technologies, Inc and its subsidiaries.

_Salary Range: $120,000- $150,000 Annually

_Our compensation structure considers various geographical markets within the United States. The base salary for this role reflects the typical expected earnings. However, the final compensation package will be determined by several factors, including your location, job-specific expertise, skills, experience, and other relevant job-related considerations.

_What We Offer:

  • A unique opportunity to shape the journey of realtime
  • Working within a rapidly growing, game-changing business
  • Remote, flexible working options
  • Competitive compensation
  • Generous STI and LTI provisions
  • Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Paid Annual Leave
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • 401K, and more

Equal Opportunity Statement:

_Realtime is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status.

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