Principal Software Engineer

Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our ever evolving Software Engineering Team team and help shape the future of global commerce. What You’ll Own • Help to define and lead the AI strategy for the Integrated engineering organisation as well as accelerate organizational AI maturity by fostering collaboration, growing internal AI communities, and expanding awareness of AI capabilities that empower teams to innovate and deliver greater impact with engineering and peers within Operations, DevOps, Security and Compliance teams. • Identify, prioritise, and validate high-impact AI opportunities across product experiences, engineering workflows, developer productivity, quality engineering, operations, support, platform modernisation, knowledge management. • Improve engineering effectiveness, champion responsible and secure AI adoption, ensuring solutions account for data protection, privacy, reliability, explainability, observability, operational support, regulatory expectations, and ethical use. • Lead AI engineering enablement by establishing standards, reusable patterns, reference architectures, evaluation approaches, knowledge-sharing forums, and mentoring practices. • Coach and mentor engineers to adopt AI-first thinking where it improves outcomes, while maintaining strong engineering discipline, quality, and customer focus. What You'll Bring • Strong hands-on engineering background with experience building, deploying, and scaling production-ready software applications and AI-powered products.  • Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and storytelling skills with the ability to influence decisions across technical and non-technical audiences.  • Experience implementing AI/ML operational practices, including continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), automation, data governance, or real-time data processing solutions as well as a strong understanding of responsible AI practices. • Understanding of database design, database development, design patterns, refactoring, object-oriented design, and modern software development best practice alongside experience identifying and resolving performance and scalability issues. • Experience with web services, including SOAP and RESTful endpoint creation and authentication schemes as well as Experience working in Agile Scrum or Lean Kanban environments.   It's a bonus if you have   • Payments domain expertise  • Experience with Natural Language Processing (NLP), conversational AI agents, or large language model application development frameworks.  • Knowledge of cloud and data platforms  About the team Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders. What makes a Globalpayer? Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do. Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global #LI- EM