Principal Software Engineer – Partner Channels

Skimmer; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay + bonus potential

100% medical premium paid

401(k) with company match

Flexible PTO

12 weeks paid parental leave

Job summary

Skimmer is hiring for a Technical Leader to guide their Embedded Software Development team in Austin, TX. This role emphasizes mentoring a development team while contributing code and leading integrations involving embedded financial products.

The ideal candidate will possess strong API integration experience, leadership skills, and be familiar with secure software practices. Skimmer promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace and offers flexible PTO, medical benefits, and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Tenured experience leading a development team in a technical leadership role at a SaaS startup.
• Strong hands-on experience building API-based, real-time integrations for SaaS products.
• Deep knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, retries, idempotency, and failure handling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small team of development engineers while contributing technically.
• Drive evaluation, integration, and ongoing support for embedded products.
• Build and maintain secure APIs, webhooks, middleware, and integration patterns.

Skills

Leadership

API Development

REST APIs

OAuth

C#

Microsoft SQL

Data Privacy

AI Tools

Job description

Required Locations

Skimmer has downtown office spaces in Austin, TX and Toronto, ON, and remote-first employees around the US. Currently we can hire hybrid employees in Austin and Toronto, or remote employees in the following states: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.

About the position

Skimmer is looking for a player/coach technical leader to guide our Embedded Software Development team. You’ll lead a small team while contributing code that expands our platform through partner integrations, including embedded financial products and other third‑party offerings that make Skimmer more valuable for customers.

This team owns the partner integration and enablement processes for the Skimmer platform and mobile app. Skimmer has a team that owns the customer‑facing API and middleware tools. This team specifically owns partner integrations that are deeply integrated into Skimmer. Many of these partners will be tightly integrated into the interface for financial services we resell.

You’ll report to the VP of Engineering and work closely with Product, Finance, Customer Success, and Support.

What you’ll do

• Lead and mentor a small team of development engineers while contributing technically as a player/coach.
• Serve as the internal technical expert on Skimmer’s partner integration architecture, including embedded financial products and third‑party offerings.
• Drive evaluation, integration, and ongoing support for embedded products to ensure reliability, data accuracy, and a seamless customer experience.
• Build and maintain secure APIs, webhooks, middleware, and integration patterns for partner functionality.
• Partner on vendor selection and technical due diligence for prospective integration partners.
• Use AI tools and best practices to improve team productivity and code quality.
• Own security, compliance, and data privacy considerations across partner integrations.

First 90 days

• Lead the build‑out of the first embedded financial product integration with Product and the selected partner.
• Define a reusable integration framework for auth, webhooks, retries, monitoring, and data sync.
• Review and strengthen the security, compliance, and data‑sharing posture for third‑party integrations.

What you bring

• Tenured experience leading a development team in a technical leadership or player/coach role at a SaaS startup.
• Strong hands‑on experience building API‑based, real‑time integrations for SaaS products.
• Deep knowledge of REST APIs, webhooks, OAuth, retries, idempotency, monitoring, and failure handling.
• Experience with embedded financial products or similar third‑party offerings is a strong plus.
• Proficiency using AI tools, preferably Claude, to improve development productivity.
• Strong development experience in C# and Microsoft SQL.
• Strong business judgment and understanding of privacy, compliance, and partner risk.
• High EQ and a track record of leading cross‑functional work successfully.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay + bonus potential
• Generous medical, dental, and vision plans (we pay 100% of your premium and 50% of your dependents’)
• Fantastic culture with a very strong eNPS- we work hard, celebrate wins, and learn as we go to always be improving to benefit our customers.
• Immediate access to 401(k) with company match
• Flexible PTO (minimum of 10 days required every year)
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parent, 6 weeks paid leave for supporting partner
• Remote work friendly
• Comprehensive learning and development budget
• A manager dedicated to your development

At Skimmer we are deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace (it’s in our values). We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to identify and onboard people from all walks of life. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, family status, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, neurodiversity, disability, age, or veteran status, or any other non‑merit based or legally protected grounds.

We also acknowledge that there is no “perfect” candidate - if you fulfill the majority of these requirements, believe this is a role you would be excited about on a daily basis, and resonate with our culture, we encourage you to apply.