Principal Engineer (Retail & Mobile Payments - Nordic Wallets & eCom)

Nordea Group; Województwo świętokrzyskie; Hybrid; PLN 260.000 - 420.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Nordea seeks a Principal Engineer to shape Nordic payment services, focusing on Digital Euro through the Nordic Wallets & eCom ART. You will drive technical direction, oversee solution design, and empower multiple engineering teams across a scalable, secure payment platform.

You will partner with architects and business stakeholders, promoting modern engineering practices, AI-assisted development, and resilient architectures in a complex, cross-border environment.

Qualifikationen

• Strong experience with Java and Python (Phyton) and modern development practices.
• Proven ability to design distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Proficiency with relational databases such as Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing RESTful APIs and integrating messaging patterns.
• Hands-on with microservices and modern software design.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, containers, and DevOps practices.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Aufgaben

• Provide technical leadership and act as design authority for Nordic Wallets & eCom Digital Euro initiatives.
• Lead modernisation efforts including API-first, microservices, and cloud-native practices.
• Support AI-assisted software development and guide teams in adopting new tools.
• Establish and promote engineering standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, product owners and stakeholders to ensure resilient, scalable solutions.
• Mentor engineers and uplift capabilities across teams.
• Provide hands-on guidance for complex engineering challenges and critical design decisions.
• Drive improvements in resilience, performance, observability, security, and operations.

Kenntnisse

Java

Phyton

Distributed systems

Relational databases

RESTful APIs

Microservices

CI/CD

Containerisation

English

Tools

Oracle

PostgreSQL

Jobbeschreibung

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Principal Engineer (Retail & Mobile Payments - Nordic Wallets & eCom)

Job ID:6919

At Nordea, our customers' expectations for simple, secure and seamless digital payment experiences are growing rapidly. Our Service Domain, Retail & Mobile Payments, plays a key role in meeting these expectations by delivering mobile payments, bill payment services and digital wallet solutions across the Nordics. Together, we enable trusted, high-quality payment experiences for millions of customers and businesses.

We're now looking for an experienced Principal Engineer to help shape the future of Nordic payment services with focus on the Digital Euro initiative. If you're passionate about technology leadership, modern software engineering and building resilient solutions at scale, this role offers a unique opportunity to deliver meaningful impact while influencing the technical direction of critical payment services used every day across the Nordic region.

About this opportunity

Welcome to the Retail & Mobile Payments Service Domain.

As a Principal Engineer, you will be one of the key technical leaders within our Nordic Wallets and eCom Agile Release Train. You will drive solution design and technical direction for the strategically important solution for Digital Euro within our ART.

This is an expert individual contributor role for someone who combines deep engineering expertise with systems thinking. You will help shape solutions across multiple teams, influence engineering decisions, and ensure that our technology landscape evolves towards modern, scalable and maintainable platforms.

You will play a central role in Nordea's technology transformation journey, helping teams embrace modern engineering practices, AI-assisted software development, and strong engineering standards while remaining close to the technology and implementation challenges within Digital Euro solutions for our domain.

What you will be doing

• Providing technical leadership and acting as a design authority including driving solution design and guiding implementation across the Nordic Wallets & eCom Agile Release Train with focus on the Digital Euro solution
• Leading modernisation efforts, including API-first solutions, microservices, event-driven architectures and cloud-native engineering practices
• Supporting adoption of AI-assisted software engineering and helping engineering teams leverage new tools and capabilities effectively.
• Establishing and promoting engineering standards, design principles and best practices.
• Collaborating closely with architects, engineers, product owners and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are resilient, scalable and aligned with strategic objectives.
• Mentoring engineers and contributing to capability uplift across teams
• Providing hands‑on technical guidance for complex engineering challenges and critical design decisions
• Driving improvements in resilience, performance, observability, security and operational excellence

This role is based in Helsinki, Finland or Gdyania or Gdansk in Poland

Who you are

At Nordea, we value collaboration, ownership, passion and courage. These qualities are essential as we continue modernising critical payment capabilities and serving millions of customers across the Nordics and now implementing the Digital Euro solution.

To succeed in this role, we believe you:

• Are an experienced software engineer with a passion for solving complex technical problems
• Enjoy combining strategic thinking with hands‑on engineering leadership
• Have the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and stakeholders
• Are naturally curious about emerging technologies and AI-enabled ways of working
• Enjoy mentoring others and helping engineering organisations raise their technical capabilities
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Thrive in a collaborative, cross‑functional and continuously evolving environment
• Having an AI first approach

Your experience and background

Required

• Strong expertise in Java and Phyton, with deep understanding of modern features, patterns and development practices.
• Proven experience designing and implementing distributed systems with a focus on scalability, resilience and fault tolerance.
• Strong proficiency with relational database technologies, including Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs, messaging solutions and enterprise integration patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with microservices-based architectures and modern software design approaches.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices, containerisation technologies and DevOps ways of working.
• Experience influencing technical direction and driving solution outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

Good to have

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud‑native deployment patterns.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, asynchronous messaging, CQRS or event sourcing.
• Understanding of payment systems, ISO 20022 standards and financial services technologies.
• Experience working with security, authentication and regulatory requirements in modern digital platforms.
• Knowledge of observability, monitoring and performance optimisation practices.
• Familiarity with API management platforms and service mesh technologies.

What makes this role unique

This is an opportunity to influence both technology and engineering culture within one of the Nordics' largest payment environments.

You will work on highly strategic initiatives at the heart of Nordea's payment ecosystem, help shape the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices, and contribute directly to the implementation of Digital Euro. The role combines the breadth of architecture with the depth and impact of hands‑on engineering leadership.

What we offer

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

People are driven by many different factors. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

Only for candidates in Finland:

A security clearance will be performed for the person selected for this position.

Only for candidates in Poland:

In accordance with art. 6 (1) a and b. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) hereinafter ‘GDPR’. I agree to have: my personal data, education and employment history proceeded for the purposes of current and future recruitment processes in Nordea Bank Abp.

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