Principal Engineer

Ebury is a global fintech firm dedicated to empowering businesses to expand internationally through tailored and forward-thinking financial solutions. Since our founding in 2009, we've grown to a diverse team of over 1,700 professionals across 40+ offices and 29+ markets worldwide. Joining Ebury means becoming part of a collaborative and innovative environment where your contributions are valued. You'll play a key role in shaping the future of cross-border finance, while advancing your own career in a dynamic, high-growth industry.

**Principal Engineer**

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

The FinCore Engineering team at Ebury is seeking a highly experienced Principal Engineer to lead critical initiatives and drive architectural excellence within our team. As a key member of our distributed team spanning South America and Europe, you will be responsible for the strategic development and optimization of our multi-currency accounting system and foreign currency exchange platform. Your expertise will be instrumental in shaping the future of our platform and ensuring we deliver a best-in-class FX experience for our clients and operational teams.
As a Principal Python Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, mentor senior engineers, and define the architectural direction of our core systems. Your deep technical knowledge and strategic vision will be essential to our continued innovation and growth. We value collaboration and commitment, and operate within a distributed setup where effective teamwork is key.

**What we offer**:

- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Discretionary bonus based on performance
- Continued personal development through training and certification
- We are Open Source friendly, following Open Source principles in our internal projects and encouraging contributions to external projects

**Responsibilities**:

- Define and drive the architectural vision for our FX platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
- Lead the design and review of complex system architectures, establishing best practices and standards for software development.
- Drive Ebury-wide initiatives and collaborate with product management, design, and operations to align engineering priorities with business objectives.
- Make strategic technology decisions regarding project timelines, resource allocation, and technology adoption, contributing to the overall growth strategy of the engineering team.
- Engage at executive-level and represent the domain and Ebury in internal and external forums.
- Embrace our 'You build it, you own it' philosophy by taking full ownership of the products you build, overseeing their development, and ongoing maintenance.
- Mentor and guide senior and staff engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, collaboration and innovation, while setting an example of culture and performance.
- Ensures adherence to high coding standards and engineering excellence by championing code quality and defining and evolving overarching engineering standards.

**About you**:

- Extensive professional programming experience (ideally 10+ years) in developing intricate software systems is essential. Proficiency in multiple programming paradigms and languages is preferred, with particular emphasis on Python (our current primary backend language).
- Proven track record of leading architectural design and implementation for large-scale systems.
- Expertise in establishing standard APIs, integrating monitoring and alerting services, and seamlessly integrating with external systems to build and manage services.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in guiding engineering teams through high-impact projects, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.
- Ability to work with and understand existing code, propose and implement improvements to reduce tech debt and enhance workflow efficiency.
- Strong commitment to code quality, testing (unit, integration, end-to-end), and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Terraform).
- Excellent communication skills in English, both written and spoken, as you will collaborate with colleagues from different countries.

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**About Us**

**Ebury is a FinTech success story, positioned among the fastest-growing international companies in its sector.**

Founded in 2009, we are headquartered in London and have more than 1700 staff with a presence in more than 29 markets worldwide. Cultural diversity is part of what makes Ebury a special place to be. From Sao Paulo to Dubai, Vancouver to Auckland, we enjoy sharing team experiences and celebrating success across the Ebury family.

Hard work pays off: in 2019, Ebury received a £350 million investment from Banco Santander and has won internationally recognised awards including Financial Times: 1000 Europe's Fastest-Growing Companies.

None of this would have been possible without our proudest achievement: our great people. Enthusi