Founding Principal Engineer

Growing fintech company creating compliance, geolocation, and solutions for guardrails of consumers, is looking for a Founding Principal Engineer to join their team!

To note: this is a fully remote role based in the United States. However, the candidate must be a US Citizen or have their Green Card (Permanent Residency). 

Responsibilities: 

• Work across the full stack (backend, frontend, APIs) — perhaps your dominant strength is backend, but you can dip into UI & integration work
• Build systems that are simple, observable, and secure
• Work with, and lead, small teams across the product and software development lifecycle
• Design APIs and data models that are auditable, reliable, and privacy-aware
• Harden security & compliance with best practices

Qualifications: 

• 5+ years of professional software experience (or equivalent in a strong portfolio)
• Solid experience across backend (e.g. service architecture, APIs, data models) and frontend components (React or similar)
• Hands-on AWS experience: EC2 / ECS (Fargate & EC2), RDS Postgres (HA / Multi-AZ), S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, KMS, ACM, WAF/Shield, API Gateway, Cognito/SSO
• Comfortable working with Postgres database: schema design, migrations, performance tuning
• Willingness to learn Go / Elixir (or other backend languages) — exposure to Elixir / Phoenix is a plus but not mandatory
• Practical understanding of security, privacy, and auditing in data systems

Nice to have: 

• Experience in regulated industries (fintech, gaming, health), SOC 2 practices, or data retention policies
• Familiarity with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
• API design for third parties: rate limiting, idempotency, resilience
• Observability (logging, metrics, tracing), incident playbooks
• Data pipelines & reporting: batch / scheduled jobs, exports (CSV / Parquet), S3 → API downloads

Next Steps:

Do you want to be a foundational member of a mission driven company protecting consumers? Send your resume, along with you application, and let's chat!