Principal Software Engineer - Backend Job in Finbox

Principal Software Engineer - Backend | FinBox

Location: Bengaluru

Experience: 10-15 Years

About FinBox: Where Fintech Meets Fun!

Welcome to FinBox, where innovation in fintech meets creativity and excellence. Since our founding in 2017, we ve been transforming the financial services space, building state-of-the-art technologies that help lenders like Banks, NBFCs, and large enterprises quickly launch credit products cutting down development time from months to days.

As a Series A funded company, we re rapidly expanding, with offices across India, Vietnam, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Our mission is to build the best-in-class infrastructure for lending products, empowering financial services firms worldwide to launch and scale credit programs that define the future of digital finance. We've already helped our customers disburse billions of dollars in credit, touching millions of lives globally.

Why Should You be a FinBoxer?

• Innovative Environment: We encourage creative thinking and experimentation to push the boundaries of fintech.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will directly impact millions, improving accessibility to credit across the world.
• Growth Opportunities: As a rapidly growing startup, we offer ample opportunities for personal and professional growth.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a dynamic, diverse, and inclusive team where everyone supports one another to drive meaningful change.

Who s a Great FinBoxer?

• Creative Thinkers: You thrive on out-of-the-box solutions and enjoy disrupting the status quo.
• Customer Heroes: You put the customer first and aim to solve their problems through innovation.
• Team Players: You work collaboratively and value diverse perspectives in achieving shared success.

Key Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer - Backend, you will:

• Drive Technical Excellence
  • Architect and deliver high-impact features and platform improvements with a focus on scalability, latency, and compliance (PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC2).
  • Lead the resolution of critical tech debt across teams, ensuring long-term maintainability and performance.
• Shape Product Strategy
  • Define and design long-term architecture that aligns with the business goals and technical requirements.
  • Break down complex strategic initiatives into executable engineering tasks.
  • Collaborate with Product, Sales, and Customer Success teams to align technical roadmaps with customer pain points.
  • Ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across teams, maintaining high standards of engineering excellence.
• Grow Engineering Talent
  • Mentor senior engineers, guiding them into leadership roles while fostering a culture of growth and excellence.
  • Lead knowledge-sharing sessions, design reviews, and technical discussions to help upskill the team.
• Act as a Cross-Functional Partner
  • Align engineering priorities with Product, Compliance, Operations, and Sales teams.
  • Own Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and vision decks for strategic features and roadmap alignment.
  • Navigate trade-offs between different stakeholders and drive alignment across functions to ensure successful feature delivery.
• Ensure Production Stability
  • Lead high-severity incident response and root cause analysis (RCA) processes, ensuring fast resolution and minimal downtime.
  • Maintain and enforce up-to-date incident playbooks, driving a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Who You Are

We re looking for someone who:

• Has 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a technical leadership or staff/principal role.
• Possesses expertise in system architecture, design patterns, and scaling distributed systems.
• Has a strong understanding of compliance and security frameworks such as GDPR, SOC2, and PCI DSS.
• Has proven experience in mentoring and developing senior engineers into leadership roles, fostering a culture of technical excellence.
• Demonstrates excellent collaboration skills, with experience working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment.
• Has hands-on experience in production incident management, improving system reliability and creating playbooks for incident response.
• Strong technical expertise in backend technologies (Go, Python, Java, Rust, etc.), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and databases (SQL/NoSQL).

Nice to Have

• Experience working in SaaS or B2B product environments.
• Familiarity with OKRs and a metric-driven approach to product delivery.
• Contributions to open-source projects or active involvement in technical community events.

Why Join Us?

• Ownership: Lead major projects and own the technical direction for critical systems.
• Innovation: Work on cutting-edge technologies that redefine the future of digital finance.
• Impact: Play a direct role in providing accessible credit to millions of people worldwide.
• Culture: Join a team that values collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.

If you re a seasoned backend architect with leadership experience and a passion for fintech innovation, apply now and take your career to the next level with FinBox!