Job Overview
As a Principal Engineer in the Payments Software Engineering team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and delivering best-in-class solutions for our Payments products. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams—including Product, Architecture, Database, DevOps, and Performance Engineering—you will drive innovative, scalable, and high-performance payment solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers
Job Responsibilities:
- Defining and driving Payment platform’s technical approach, system design decisions, and engineering best practices
- Driving platform scalability, reliability, and observability by implementing best practices in API-first and event driven approach, distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and fault-tolerant design patterns.
- Influence team and company-wide engineering culture and product solutions through thought leadership.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Business, and Engineering leaders to ensure technical solutions align with business needs and developing engineering roadmaps.
- Championing AI-driven engineering practices, including intelligent automation, predictive analytics, and self-healing systems to improve development efficiency and system resilience.
- Promote and implement AI based solutions for Payment product initiatives
- Solving problems, debugging and optimizing code to ensure optimum performance and security.
- Determine optimal solutions for architecture, efficiency, maintainability, and scalability in cooperation with developers and architects.
- Managing code internal quality and ensuring appropriate unit test coverage along with teaming up with QA to review, approve and design against test cases- ensuring our demanding customers' expectations are fulfilled.
- Performing code reviews and approving pull requests to ensure code follows documented standards and best practices. Mentor and coach developers with focus on Senior developers.
- Performing full life cycle application development, including researching available technical options for features, providing guidance and feedback on the findings and building proof of concepts to confirm the best approach.
- Ensuring for the quality and state of the Software delivery pipeline and guiding the team to improve it.
- Collaborate with Solution and Enterprise Architects in the design, review, and implementation of new capabilities and features.
Experience, Qualification, and Skills:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related education and 10+ years of .NET software development experience building web-based applications
- Exceptional knowledge of the Microsoft development stack: .NET Core, .NET Framework 4.5+, C#, JavaScript, VS, RESTful services, ORM, T-SQL, JSON, MVC, XML, HTML, and CSS
- Strong design and architecture mindset, with experience designing scalable, high-performance, and secure enterprise applications in Azure or other public clouds.
- Proficiency in modern software engineering best practices, including unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, microservices, and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Deep knowledge of exercising sound coding practices, such as unit testing, object-oriented programming, and patterns
- Comprehensive knowledge of databases – RDBMS and NoSQL, and advanced SQL including stored procedures, indexes, functions, and triggers
About AvidXchange
AvidXchange is a leading provider of accounts payable (“AP”) automation software and payment solutions for middle-market businesses and their suppliers. By trade, we are a technology company, but if you ask anyone who works here, they’ll tell you our people are at the core of who we are. We focus on creating a culture of Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging, and are proud to be a safe place where teammates can bring their whole selves to work. At AvidXchange, mindset is everything. We are Connected as People, Growth Minded, and Customer Obsessed. These three mindsets represent our culture – who we are, who we’ve always been, and they guide us to improve every day. Since our founding in 2000 in Charlotte, NC, we’ve created a company of over 1,600 teammates working across the U.S., or remotely. AvidXchange is proud to be Certified™ as a Great Place to Work®. The prestigious recognition is based on anonymous data from our teammates and makes official what our teammates have known for years – that AvidXchange is a Great Place to Work®.
Who you are:
- A go-getter with an entrepreneurial mindset – that means you are not afraid of taking risks, winning big or facing the unknown.
- Someone who understands that business is people centric. Connecting with others as humans first allows you to develop mutually beneficial working relationships.
- Focused on making a difference for our customers. AvidXchange exists to help solve complex problems for our customers so we can all realize our potential.
What you’ll get:
AvidXchange teammates (we call them AvidXers) get the perks and prestige of a publicly traded tech company paired with the flexibility of a founder-led startup. We help our AvidXers develop as professionals and as human beings, providing work/life balance, development programs, competitive benefits and equity options. At AvidXchange, we are building more than a tech company – we are building an experience. We remain committed to a culture where you can fully be 'you’ – connected with others, chasing big goals, and making a meaningful impact. If you want to help us grow while realizing your potential and creating stories you’ll tell for years, you’ve come to the right place.
AvidXers enjoy:
- 18 days PTO*
- 11 Holidays (8 company recognized & 3 floating holidays)
- 16 hours per year of paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Competitive Healthcare
- High Deductible Heath Plan Option that has $0 monthly premium for teammate-only coverage
- 100% AvidXchange paid Dental Base Plan Coverage
- 100% AvidXchange paid Life Insurance
- 100% AvidXchange paid Long-Term Disability
- 100% AvidXchange paid Short-Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Provides counseling services, legal and financial consultations and health advocacy for Teammates and their eligible dependents
- Onsite Health Clinic with Atrium Health - available to Teammates and their eligible dependents
- 401k Match up to 4%
- Parental Leave: 8 weeks 100% paid by AvidXchange**
- Discounts on Pet, Home, and Auto insurance
- BrightDime Financial Wellness Tool, offered free to teammates
- WeeCare Childcare Service: helps teammates find affordable daycare, childcare, and tutors 40% less expensive than traditional daycare centers
- Perks at Work: free discount program that provides teammates the opportunity to save on items from electronics, movie tickets, car buying, vacations, and more
- Onsite gym fitness center, yoga studio, and basketball court
- Tuition Reimbursement up to the federal maximum of $5,250***
- Hybrid Workplace Flexibility
- Free parking
*Fully granted from beginning of year, pro-rated if hired mid-year
**Must be full-time for at least 3 months
***Must be full-time for at least one year
Equal Employment Opportunity
AvidXchange is an equal opportunity employer. AvidXchange is committed to equal employment opportunity in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. AvidXchange will not discriminate against applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis. This includes, but is not limited to veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age and physical or mental disability.
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AvidXchange Charlotte, North Carolina, USA Office
1210 AvidXChange Lane, Charlotte, NC, United States, 28206
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