Principal Software Engineer
Green Dot Corporation10 days ago
USA (city not specified)Staff+
Base Salary
$159k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of APIs and microservices for Banking as a Service onboarding and partner integrations.
- Define technical requirements and collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions.
- Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, mentoring, testing, CI/CD, observability, and best practices.
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis processes.
- Own architectural decisions and long-term technical strategy for the BaaS platform.
- Refactor and extend the codebase to fix defects, add functionality, reduce technical debt, and support configurability.
- Evaluate and champion emerging technologies while documenting architecture and design decisions.
- Organize technical working sessions, lead discussions, delegate actions, and own assigned components or capabilities through delivery.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, or a related field.
- Six years of experience as a Principal Engineer, Software Engineer, or in a related occupation.
- Experience with C#, .NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Azure or AWS, and cloud-native application design and hosting.
- Experience with Azure services including APIM, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, and Key Vault, plus container technologies and caching frameworks.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and web services using OAuth2, OpenAPI, SOAP, XML, and JSON.
- Experience designing microservices frameworks, event-driven patterns using Service Bus and Event Hubs, and scalable reliable systems.
- Experience with Git, GitHub, CI/CD processes, TeamCity, pipelines, and blue-green deployments.
- Experience implementing observability dashboards and platforms such as Datadog and Grafana.
- Knowledge of security best practices for financial services and compliance standards including PCI DSS and SOC 2.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment on mission-critical, revenue-critical, customer-facing applications.
- Preferred experience includes fintech or embedded finance platforms, partner onboarding workflows, SLA management, open-source contributions, or technical publications.
- Ability to work in the United States without sponsorship and meet the stated location requirement.
Benefits
- Targeted base salary is stated as $159,400 to $229,300 per year.
- Position type is regular.
- Position is open only to candidates currently residing in West Los Angeles, California.
- The employer provides reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process.
About Green Dot Corporation
Green Dot Corporation builds consumer and business money-movement products, including GO2bank digital checking, prepaid debit cards, a nationwide cash‑reload network, payroll/paycard solutions, and tax refund processing. It also provides banking-as-a-service and embedded finance capabilities for brands that need compliant accounts, cards, and payments. Founded in 1999, Green Dot is publicly traded on the NYSE (GDOT) and operates both direct-to-consumer offerings and partner-powered programs.