Principal Financial Services Engineer

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🕒 July 13

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $220k - $255k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Rockstar

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

Rockstar is a full-service recruitment company that leverages a blend of human expertise and artificial intelligence to help businesses hire better and faster at a lower cost. They offer a comprehensive recruitment service for less than $1,500 per role by providing access to a large talent database, fast and efficient candidate reviews, and human screening. Their proprietary AI enables the review of thousands of applications to quickly match candidates to job descriptions, while custom screening calls are conducted by recruiters in the US, UK, or Australia. Rockstar supports hiring across a wide range of professional roles, including sales, marketing, strategy, product, business operations, analytics, data science, software development, infrastructure, finance, and accounting. This flexible approach allows companies to meet strong candidates without long-term commitments, making it a cost-effective solution for teams of all sizes.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the architecture, strategy, and long-term roadmap for the financial services domain. • Design and build secure, scalable systems supporting payments, billing, collections, and ledger management. • Lead integrations with banks, payment processors, fintech partners, and financial service providers. • Collaborate closely with Finance, Product, and Engineering leaders to align technical solutions with business objectives. • Establish and drive best practices around reliability, observability, transaction integrity, and financial accuracy. • Mentor senior and staff engineers through architecture reviews, technical guidance, and engineering leadership. • Lead investigation, resolution, and prevention efforts for issues impacting financial systems and money movement. • Assess emerging technologies, payment solutions, and AI capabilities that improve efficiency, reliability, or customer experience.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience designing and scaling payment systems, billing platforms, ledgers, banking integrations, or fintech infrastructure • Deep expertise in Python and Django, with the ability to design and maintain complex backend services • Strong working knowledge of JavaScript and React in modern web applications • Hands-on experience working with ACH, card payments, payment processors, and financial APIs • Expertise with PostgreSQL and designing systems that support reconciliation, auditability, and financial accuracy • Proven experience building distributed, fault-tolerant systems on AWS with strong reliability and scalability practices • Understanding of financial security requirements, data protection, and compliance considerations for financial systems • Demonstrated ability to influence engineering strategy, mentor senior engineers, and drive cross-functional alignment • Strong judgment regarding where AI can create meaningful value within financial services and customer experiences • Ability to translate complex financial, technical, and regulatory requirements into clear direction for technical and business stakeholders.

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote position • Competitive compensation package, including equity and company-wide bonus opportunities • Medical, dental, and vision insurance • Company-paid life insurance • Optional accident insurance, FSA, and DCFSA benefits • Unlimited PTO plus 11 company-observed holidays • 401(k) plan • 12 weeks of paid parental leave for both birth and non-birth parents • Opportunity to make an impact at a company helping solve the affordable housing crisis