Principal Engineer

Ebury is a leading global fintech company that empowers businesses to trade and grow internationally. It offers a comprehensive suite of products, including international payments and collections, FX risk management, trade finance, and API integrations. Founded in 2009 by Juan Lobato and Salvador García, Ebury is one of the fastest-growing global fintechs, with over 1,700 employees and 38 offices in more than 25 countries.

**Principal Software Engineer - Fintech**

**Málaga Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home**

Join Our Technology Team at Ebury **Málaga** Office.
- Impact-Driven Principal Engineer Wanted: Craft the Future of Our Client Platform with Your Expertise_

Are you passionate about driving growth in the digital financial space? Is full ownership of product development and a results-oriented culture where you thrive? Elevate our client trading and payments platform as a **Principal Engineer** and deliver excellence to our global client alongside our dynamic teams in South America and Europe.

We're looking for the

We're looking for the right attitude, work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit to ask the hard questions. To be informed by data, but be led by a desire to solve our customers' problems. You should learn by default and be ever curious. You should be programming language, framework, tool agnostic but have strong opinions (weakly held) on the right tool to solve our biggest problems.

**Why should you join Ebury?**

Want to work in a high-growth environment? We are always growing. Want to build a better world? We believe in inclusion. We stand against discrimination in all forms and have no tolerance for the intolerance of differences that makes us a modern and successful organisation.

**Get ready to take your career to the next level**:
If there's something that you can do in our Tech team, it is growing professionally: thanks to our career path and our collaborative and cross-working teams, every day is a new adventure.

**What we offer**:

- Variety of meaningful and competitive benefits to meet your needs
- Competitive salary
- You'll have continuous professional growth thanks to our career progression framework with regular reviews
- Equity process through a performance bonus
- Allowance to take annually paid time off as well as during local public holidays
- Continued personal development through training and certification
- Being part of a diverse technology team that cares deeply about culture and best practices, and believes in agile principles
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects

**Responsibilities**:

- Evolve our Client platform with innovative services and maintain ownership from conception to deployment.
- Principal Engineers have a broad perspective on the Ebury technology landscape. They contribute to the **long-term technical strategy**beyond individual projects, offering comprehensive solutions that encompass various areas of the technology stack.
- You're **analytical** and good at time management.
- You will be focused on influencing **engineering culture**, technical direction, and strategic decision-making, often without having direct reports.
- You tackle problems and projects with a long-term impact on Ebury's health and success, often involving **research** and **innovation**.
- Leverage data as a powerful tool to design essential elements effectively.
- You will write clean and functional code for both the front-end and back-end. We mainly work with Python/Django & Node.js in the backend with React/VueJS in the frontend, but experience in any other modern language and frameworks is ok.
- Craft and manage services with a focus on robust and **scalable APIs** and seamless integration, incorporating monitoring systems and alerting services.
- Pursue high code quality, backed by a solid testing regime with **Github actions**

**Experience and qualifications**
- Skilled in designing scalable, robust, and high-performance architectures that meet the evolving needs of the business.
- Extensive understanding of algorithms, object-oriented programming, functional design, and industry best practices.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent proficiency.
- Expertise in any modern programming language and front-end frameworks, such as Python 3 and Vue 3, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and adaptation.
- Fluent in **English** to facilitate seamless international collaboration.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and inspire engineering teams, fostering a culture of innovation and excellence.
- Adept at tackling complex problems and projects with a long-term impact on the company's success, including research and innovation.
- Experience working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and integration of technical solutions with business goals.

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**About Us**

**Ebury is a FinTech succ