Principal AI Platform Engineer — Innovation Studio

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc.; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 191,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

3 weeks PTO to start; unlimited PTO

Lyra Health mental health support

Family planning and women’s health

Gym membership reimbursement

Job summary

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer for its Innovation Studio to define long‑term technical direction and scale AI‑driven capabilities across the platform. You’ll lead architecture patterns, ADRs, and collaboration with leaders to deliver durable, production‑grade systems.

You will own the area’s OKRs, drive observability, and elevate engineering maturity while guiding teams through AI-native transformation and secure, reliable delivery.

Qualifications

• 15–20+ years of engineering experience with multi-team impact.
• Experience in Payments or Banking domain preferred.
• Hands-on credibility with production systems and incident handling.
• Proven track record designing AI-enabled architectures and owning technical direction.

Responsibilities

• Stay hands-on: design, build, review, and operate critical systems across the area.
• Lead high-pressure incidents and cross-functional escalations.
• Own the architecture roadmap and ADRs for the workstream.
• Participate in Architecture Review Board and maintain ADRs to enterprise standards.
• Mentor engineers and raise the team’s engineering maturity.

Skills

AI-native engineering

Distributed systems

Architecture leadership

Hands-on coding

Executive stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

Tools

Node.js/NestJS

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer for its Innovation Studio to define long‑term technical direction and scale AI‑driven capabilities across the platform. You’ll lead architecture patterns, ADRs, and collaboration with leaders to deliver durable, production‑grade systems.

You will own the area’s OKRs, drive observability, and elevate engineering maturity while guiding teams through AI-native transformation and secure, reliable delivery.