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Candescent is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead the architectural evolution of its flagship digital banking platform, with a primary focus on mobile-first consumer experience. This is a highly strategic technical leadership role responsible for defining long-term technology vision, driving platform modernization, and ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability across millions of consumer interactions.
You will serve as a technical authority for Candescent's Consumer Platform, influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams and guiding architectural decisions. Key responsibilities include:
**Platform Architecture & Modernization:** Own and define the technical vision and architectural roadmap for the Consumer Platform. Lead modernization of the cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS digital banking ecosystem. Design scalable, resilient, and extensible mobile-first architectures. Define architectural standards, guardrails, and best practices across mobile, web, and backend systems. Drive adoption of plugin-centric architectures and API-driven feature enablement. Guide implementation of modular UI composition and micro frontend strategies. Lead architecture reviews, technical design sessions, and platform governance initiatives.
**Mobile Platform Leadership:** Serve as technical leader for mobile application architecture across iOS and Android. Establish standards for React Native, native mobile development, and cross-platform engineering practices. Guide mobile platform initiatives improving performance, security, maintainability, and user experience. Drive modernization of app delivery, release management, and App Store/Google Play deployment automation. Define mobile observability, monitoring, and performance measurement practices.
**Cloud & Distributed Systems:** Champion microservices best practices including API lifecycle management, service discovery, event-driven architectures, and observability. Design solutions optimizing performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency. Partner with infrastructure teams on Kubernetes-based deployment models and cloud-native operations.
**Data & Integration Strategy:** Define scalable data access, caching, and synchronization strategies. Collaborate with Data Engineering teams on analytics, personalization, and customer intelligence. Support integration with Minerva, Databricks, PostgreSQL, and enterprise data systems. Lead architectural decisions on event streaming, messaging systems, and real-time data delivery.
**Engineering Leadership:** Mentor Staff Engineers, Senior Engineers, and emerging technical leaders. Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, and innovation. Conduct architectural assessments and technical health evaluations. Partner with Product, Security, Support, and Business stakeholders. Drive technical decision-making across cross-functional teams.
**Security, Risk & Compliance:** Ensure platform architecture aligns with financial services security and compliance requirements. Establish best practices for secure software development and DevSecOps. Support compliance initiatives including SOC 2, FFIEC, and GLBA. Integrate security and compliance controls into engineering processes.
Tech stack includes React Native, React, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, GCP, Jenkins, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
**Requirements:**
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (advanced degree preferred)
- 14+ years of software engineering experience with progressively increasing technical leadership responsibilities
- 4+ years leading architecture and platform strategy for large-scale software products
- Deep expertise in mobile application architecture, platform development, and modernization
- Significant experience designing and operating multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Strong background in cloud-native architectures and distributed systems
- Proven success building scalable microservices-based applications
- Hands-on experience with React Native and modern web technologies
- Strong understanding of API design, integration patterns, and backend service architecture
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
**Preferred:**
- Experience within fintech, digital banking, or highly regulated industries
- Expertise in event-driven architecture and asynchronous messaging platforms
- Experience with mobile platform frameworks and reusable engineering platforms
- Knowledge of banking, privacy, and regulatory standards (SOC 2, FFIEC, GLBA)
- Experience leading large-scale platform transformation initiatives
- Familiarity with personalization, analytics, and customer engagement technologies
