Avenue Code, LLC
Avenue Code, LLC

Principal Software Engineer

Hybrid in Los Angeles, CA, US • Posted 7 hours ago • Updated 7 hours ago
Contract W2
12 Months
No Travel Required
Hybrid
$80 - $90/hr
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Skills

  • C#

Summary

Principal Software Engineer
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Contract: 8+ Months
 
 
Job Description:
Principal Engineer: Rearchitect Client Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform for the future using cloud native techniques.
 
Ensure software is designed and built with quality, maintainability, scalability, availability, extensibility, security, portability, and testability. Partner with product teams to shape the future state of products. Actively identify technical debt and work with internal stakeholders to address debt on an ongoing basis.
Understand evolving industry trends and identify new technologies and patterns which should be adopted, and old technologies which should be deprecated. Participate in code reviews, coach team members, and learn from receiving feedback. 
 
Skills/Experience:    
Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices that support BaaS onboarding and partner integration.
  • Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to define technical requirements and deliver robust solutions.
  • Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, and best practices in CI/CD, testing, and observability.
  • Ensure compliance with SLA standards and contribute to the development of monitoring and alerting systems.
  • Lead incident response and root cause analysis to improve system reliability.
  • Drive architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for BaaS platform, including generating documentation around architectural and design options analysis and decisions.
  • Champion emerging technologies evaluation and adoption.
  • Refactor and extend the existing codebase to fix defects and add features/functionality
  • Create systems that are durable and flexible by developing for change favor configurability over customization.
Required Skills:    
Education and experience
  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field, plus six (6) years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or related occupation.
  • A strong portfolio showing secure, standards-compliant code across multiple platforms, including the Microsoft stack and open-source technologies.
Experience must include:
  • Languages and frameworks: C#, .NET, , and SQL Server.
  • Cloud: Designing, developing, and hosting cloud-native applications in Azure or AWS. This includes Azure native services such as APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault, plus container technologies and caching frameworks.
  • APIs and web services: RESTful API design, OAuth2, and OpenAPI specifications. Also, SOAP and XML/JSON business object representations.
  • Architecture: Designing and building microservices frameworks, event-driven patterns (Service Bus, Event Hubs), and software design patterns and anti-patterns. Writing code for scalable, reliable systems.
  • DevOps and delivery: Git and GitHub, CI/CD processes, build tools (TeamCity), pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
  • Observability: Implementing and using observability dashboards and platforms (Datadog, Grafana).
  • Methodology: Agile development, including Scrum and Extreme Programming.
  • Security and compliance: Security best practices in financial services and compliance standards (PCI DSS, SOC 2).
Preferred Qualifications
  • Prior experience in fintech or embedded finance platforms.
  • Familiarity with partner onboarding workflows and SLA management.
  • Contributions to open-source projects or technical publications.
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  • Dice Id: 10383289
  • Position Id: 9124093
  • Posted 7 hours ago
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