Software Principal Engineer - CSP - Imaging
Role Overview
We are seeking talented Principal Engineers to lead the architectural vision and evolution of our SaaS platform into a modern, resilient, and AI-powered ecosystem.
This role plays a critical part in shaping our long-term technology strategy, providing cross-team technical leadership, and ensuring our platform is secure, scalable, performant, and data driven.
Principal Engineers work across product domains to design efficient, future-proof solutions that align with strategic objectives, proactively reducing technical roadblocks and coordinating dependencies across teams.
A primary focus of this role is driving the technology roadmap for multiple banking products performing check imaging related services ensuring that they continue to evolve as a single unified, extensible platform of services with a shared architecture serving the needs of our customers who leverage our SaaS or Single Tenant Hosted offerings or choose to deploy in their own managed environments. We expect you will promote consistency, operational efficiency and accelerated innovation working with the multiple teams building this overall product platform or leveraging it thru integration of its services in more enriched offerings. You will work closely as well with Product Management and Engineering leadership along with Enterprise Architecture to deliver the check imaging services platform and to evolve it alongside other platforms and offerings within Candescent overall. Your involvement will extend into all areas of functional and non-functional requirements inclusive of DevOps and how we successfully operate our SaaS and Single Tenant Hosted offerings. You will apply your knowledge of financial document and check imaging devices and standards and their demands on solution architectures ensuring Candescent’s imaging services platform delivers the best possible service levels with exceptional cost optimization. This is a highly collaborative and strategic role for a forward-thinking engineer who is passionate about building and sustaining platforms for scale and delivering long-term impact. This title may also be called Architect.
Key Skills for This Role
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Automation-first mindset with a drive to optimize delivery pipelines and eliminate manual processes
Statement to Third Party Agencies To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
Qualifications
- 14+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise architecture
- Familiarity with edge device integration for data and image acquisition along with suitable network architecture topologies for connectivity to public cloud services or customer data centers
- Experience with fintech and banking standards including ISO 20022, Open Banking, FDX, ANSI X9.100-187-2021, CPA Standard 015
- Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies such as GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and service mesh
- Proficient in distributed systems, multi-tenancy, and event-driven architecture performing real-time transaction processing from UI or API acquisition / initiation thru posting
- Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML into product and platform architecture
- Strong grasp of financial regulatory, security, and data compliance requirements
- Proven leadership in guiding high-performing engineering teams
- Expertise in SRE and DevOps practices including CI/CD tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Google Cloud Build
- Strong collaboration and communication skills to lead cross-functional initiatives and articulate complex concepts
- Automation-first mindset with a drive to optimize delivery pipelines and eliminate manual processes
- Statement to Third Party Agencies
Preferred Qualifications
- To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.
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