Principal Payments Engineer — Remote (Colombia)

Masabi Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

15 days paid vacation in the year plus

18 public holidays

Private Healthcare

Monthly team bonding allowance

Home office allowance up to $250

Training allowance up to $750

Work from any country up to 3 months

Job summary

Masabi is seeking a Principal Engineer - Payments to lead architecture for our payments platform in a fully remote role available to candidates based internationally, including Colombia. You will guide architecture, design scalable solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, resilient payment systems at scale.

You will operate at a senior level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams, balancing delivery tempo with long-term platform health, and engaging

Qualifications

• Strong experience with payment systems and PSP integrations.
• Understanding of payment flows and lifecycle.
• Experience designing distributed systems and microservices.
• Experience at Principal or Staff level shaping technical direction.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term architecture.
• Strong communicator across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Cloud experience (AWS preferred).

Responsibilities

• Shape the technical direction of Masabi’s payments platform, contributing to architecture, standards and engineering best practices.
• Design and deliver scalable, secure, resilient and cost-effective payment solutions aligned with Masabi’s platform direction.
• Support teams in building towards a modern, microservices-based architecture while balancing delivery priorities and long-term platform health.
• Stay close to technical delivery through architecture reviews, design discussions and targeted hands on contribution where needed.
• Identify and work through complex technical challenges related to scalability, resilience, operational performance and system evolution.
• Act as a senior technical advisor across engineering teams, supporting and influencing technical decisions, particularly within the payments domain.
• Work with external providers and payment partners on integrations, technical alignment and problem-solving.
• Contribute to technical roadmap planning, prioritisation, technical scoping and architecture discussions for complex initiatives.
• Produce clear technical documentation and contribute to engineering standards, technical forums and good practices across the organisation.

Skills

Payments systems

Distributed systems

Microservices

Cloud platforms AWS

Technical leadership

Architectural direction

Communication

Tools

Kotlin

Java

DynamoDB

MySQL

Terraform

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

Masabi is seeking a Principal Engineer - Payments to lead architecture for our payments platform in a fully remote role available to candidates based internationally, including Colombia. You will guide architecture, design scalable solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, resilient payment systems at scale.

You will operate at a senior level, shaping technical direction across multiple teams, balancing delivery tempo with long-term platform health, and engaging