Senior Principal Engineer, Bill Payments (Hybrid)

Nordea

Helsinki

Hybrid

EUR 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

43 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Nordea is seeking an experienced Principal Engineer to shape the future of Nordic payment services, providing technical leadership and architecture across critical bill payments initiatives. You will drive modernisation through API-first, microservices, and cloud-native approaches while promoting AI-assisted software engineering practices.

The role spans Finland and Poland, with hybrid work options and a strong focus on resilience and security in high-availability payment systems.

Qualifications

Strong Java 21+ expertise and modern features
Spring Boot enterprise apps experience
Distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant systems
Relational DBs including Oracle or PostgreSQL
RESTful APIs and enterprise integration patterns
Microservices with cloud-native designs
CI/CD, containers, DevOps practices
Fluent English communication

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and design authority across Bill Payments Agile Release Train.
Drive solution design for strategic payment and collection services.
Lead modernization: API-first, microservices, event-driven, cloud-native.
Promote AI-assisted software engineering adoption.
Set engineering standards and best practices.
Collaborate with architects, product owners, stakeholders.
Mentor engineers and uplift capabilities.
Ensure resilience, performance, observability, security.