Principal Architect

About Paysafe 

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 30 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,000 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com. 

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We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Principle Architect. This role is based in Jacksonville, Florida and offers a blend of 3 in office days and 2 remote working days during the work week.

Position Summary:

As a Principle Architect, you will be responsible for defining and reviewing solutions that best address business and technical needs. Having the right mix of applicable skills will allow you to explain complex solutions to audiences of varying technical understanding. You will use your knowledge to influence and direct the technological roadmap and vision for our platforms, with consideration of current/future objectives and a focus on cloud-native, scalable, and secure design.

Responsibilities:

• Design solutions that address both functional and non-functional requirements
• Articulate complex solutions to key business stakeholders
• Build deep relationships and become a trusted adviser
• Motivate and coach both developers and peers
• Ability to adapt to quickly changing requirements and technology landscape
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams when defining solutions
• Drive best practices and processes in architecture and engineering

Skills and Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience (at least 3+ years as a solutions architect) developing/designing web applications, APIs, and backend systems using the Microsoft development platform and web application frameworks
• C#, .NET (Core 3.1 or later), and ASP.NET Core
• Ability to work with stakeholders and engineers at all levels
• Experience with microservice architectures
• Experience with designing structured, semi-structured and unstructured data persistence
• Experience in building cloud-native solutions in Azure/AWS including both IaaS and PaaS
• Knowledge of event driven & distributed architectures
• Knowledge of secure coding best practices
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• API design, development, and integration experience
• A bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field or equivalent experience

Nice to Have:

• Previous experience in the payment processing industry or other financial services
• Knowledge of billing and financial systems would be a plus
• Deep technical knowledge in Java, Spring Boot and Kafka is a major advantage

Life at Paysafe:

One network. One partnership. At Paysafe, this is not only our business model; this is our mindset when it comes to our team. Being a part of Paysafe means you’ll be one of over 3200 members of a world-class team that drives our business to new heights every day and where we are committed to your personal and professional growth. Are you ready to make an impact? Join our team that is inspired by a unified vision and propelled by passion.

Our culture values humility, high trust & autonomy, a desire for excellence and meeting commitments, strong team cohesion, a sense of urgency, a desire to learn, pragmatically pushing boundaries, and accomplishing goals that have a direct business impact.  

Equal Employment Opportunity

Paysafe provides equal employment opportunities to all employees, and applicants for employment, and prohibits discrimination of any type concerning ethnicity, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected characteristics. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of recruitment and employment. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please let us know. We will be happy to help and look forward to hearing from you.