Principal Payment engineer role is responsible to create strategic Cloud enables Payment solutions with empowered teams and adaptive mindsets. We are a cutting-edge team driving innovation in the payments space, delivering cloud-based solutions for in person and digital commerce. From Secure and Fast (SnF) transaction flows, we build PCI-compliant services that power next-generation payments applications running in the cloud. You’ll apply Site Reliability Engineering to create resilient and scalable platforms. The responsibilities will also include knowledge sharing with peers, assist junior team members, and help facilitate improvements and efficiencies within the overall development organization. What You'll Do: Architect, design, and develop scalable and secure cloud-native payment applications, including: Pay App in the Cloud PCI-Compliant CDE (Cardholder Data Environment) Payment Terminal Management System services including Payment APIs Own end-to-end feature development and maintenance of real-time transaction systems. Strategic Influence: Partner with engineering leadership and cross-functional teams to set technical direction, roadmap, and priorities for major initiatives and platform investments. Complex Problem Solving: Lead development and delivery of the most complex and high-impact projects, often spanning multiple teams and systems. Mentorship & Culture: Mentor, inspire, and coach engineers at all levels; foster a culture of technical rigor, innovation, and inclusive collaboration. Standards & Excellence: Author and review key technical documents, drive adoption of best practices, and Collaborate closely with cloud engineers, device engineers, and security teams to ensure PCI-DSS compliance. Develop resilient, event-driven services using AWS and other serverless technologies. Create, configure and manage kubernetes clusters at scale. Implement best practices and configure and manage service mesh Adopt development standards that closely align the Solutions Architecture team with our Engineering team. Support, partner, and collaborate with the Hertz Security team. Perform technical reviews, document designs, and mentor junior engineers on cloud-native patterns and secure coding best practices.
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees