Principal Engineer (USA)
Principal Engineer
Location: Toronto/GTA preferred; Ottawa considered
Employment Type: Full-time, permanent
Work Model: Remote within Canada
Build the Future of Global Payments
Veem is transforming how businesses move money around the world. Through modern payment infrastructure, intelligent automation, AI-powered operations, and emerging technologies such as stablecoins and blockchain, we are building faster, simpler, and more scalable global B2B payment experiences.
We are looking for a transformative Principal Engineer to help define the next generation of Veem ’s technical architecture and platform strategy.
This is one of the most senior individual-contributor engineering roles at Veem . You will partner closely with executive leadership and teams across Engineering, Product, Data, Security, Compliance, and Operations to lead mission-critical initiatives across payments infrastructure, AI-enabled systems, distributed architecture, and emerging financial technologies.
This is not a maintenance-oriented role. We are looking for a hands-on technical leader who can shape strategy, influence across the organization, mentor senior engineers, and drive meaningful technical transformation.
What You’ll Do
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Define and drive Veem ’s long-term technical architecture across core payments, platform, data, integration, and operational systems.
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Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available distributed systems for global B2B payments.
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Lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems.
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Drive modernization efforts, improve platform scalability, and reduce technical debt.
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Establish engineering standards for architecture, reliability, observability, security, testing, and operational excellence.
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Lead AI transformation initiatives across engineering and operations.
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Design and implement systems using AI agents, LLM workflows, intelligent automation, and AI-assisted developer tooling.
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Help shape Veem ’s strategy around stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and modern payment rails.
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Evaluate emerging technologies, settlement mechanisms, fintech protocols, and platform investments.
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Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders while raising the engineering bar across the organization.
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Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executive and engineering leadership.
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Translate business priorities into scalable, practical, and commercially valuable technical solutions.
What We’re Looking For
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Approximately 12–18 years of software engineering experience.
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Proven experience operating at Staff+, Senior Staff, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent level.
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Deep expertise in distributed systems, backend architecture, APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven systems.
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Strong hands-on software engineering and architecture capabilities.
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Experience leading technically complex initiatives across multiple teams.
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Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy without direct authority.
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Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or another high-scale, highly regulated technology environment.
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Strong understanding of scalability, data consistency, reliability, security, fault tolerance, and production operations.
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Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to executive and non-technical audiences.
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Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous, and entrepreneurial environment.
Preferred Experience
- B2B or cross-border payments.
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Payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, ledgering, treasury, foreign exchange, or financial APIs.
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AI agents, LLM integrations, intelligent automation, machine learning platforms, or AI-enabled products.
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Stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, digital wallets, crypto payments, or digital assets.
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Experience at a modern fintech, payments, technology, or AI-native organization.
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