Principal Engineer, Financial Ops — Hybrid/Remote, AI-Driven

TQL; Tampa (FL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Relocation assistance

Best Places to Work in IT recognition

Job summary

TQL is seeking a Principal Engineer, Financial Operations in Tampa to lead technical strategy across modernizing critical Financial Operations systems. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data, and business teams to design scalable, resilient solutions that enable growth.

The role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding architecture, APIs, data flows, and automation while driving modernization and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience delivering large-scale enterprise apps.
• Strong hands-on development with .NET/C#, REST APIs, SQL Server, and modern stacks.
• Experience modernizing legacy apps and cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across Financial Operations engineering teams and set architectural direction.
• Define target architecture for applications, APIs, integrations, data flows and platforms.
• Lead modernization to reduce complexity and improve automation and throughput.
• Develop proofs of concept combining AI agents with APIs and data sources.
• Design resilient integration patterns and reusable architectural components.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, Security, Infrastructure, and business stakeholders.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and guide internal development vs. external solutions.
• Lead architectural sessions and perform technical discovery for large initiatives.
• Remain hands-on with PoCs, critical reviews, and coding when appropriate.
• Improve observability, reliability, and maintainability across processes.
• Mentor engineers and drive engineering standards and practices.

Skills

10+ years of software engineering

Technical leadership across multiple工程

Tools

.NET/C#

REST APIs

SQL Server

TypeScript/React

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

TQL is seeking a Principal Engineer, Financial Operations in Tampa to lead technical strategy across modernizing critical Financial Operations systems. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, Data, and business teams to design scalable, resilient solutions that enable growth.

The role blends hands-on engineering with leadership, guiding architecture, APIs, data flows, and automation while driving modernization and operational excellence.