Job Description

Job title: Principal Software Engineer

Reports to: VP, Engineering

Department: Engineering

Location: Alpharetta, GA

Grade: 22

About Priority:

Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver a personalized, easy-to-adopt financial toolset that accelerates cash flow and optimizes working capital for businesses. Our vision is to eliminate the barriers to unlocking revenue - empowering businesses to grow faster and operate smarter.

We achieve this through the Priority Commerce Engine, an innovative platform that combines payables, acquiring, and banking and treasury solutions. This unified approach allows businesses to streamline financial operations, reduce unnecessary costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities.

At Priority, we're driven by results. We expect our people to be known for results - bringing expertise, momentum, and relentless focus to every challenge, helping our clients and each other thrive.

About the Role:

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will play a key role in driving technical direction and architectural design for scalable, secure, and high-performing systems across our product ecosystem. You’ll serve as a hands-on technical leader and cross-functional collaborator—designing elegant solutions, elevating engineering standards, and mentoring engineers across levels. This is a critical role where deep expertise, architectural foresight, and influence come together to ensure our platforms are built for growth, resilience, and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end technical execution on complex initiatives, spanning services, teams, or domains.

• Architect and implement scalable, performant backend systems and APIs.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—Product, UX, SRE, QA, Architecture—to translate business needs into robust technical solutions.

• Drive code and design reviews, set technical standards, and mentor engineers to elevate team velocity and quality.

• Champion design excellence, automation, test coverage, and system observability across teams.

• Identify and address tech debt, infrastructure bottlenecks, and architectural risk.

• Guide incident resolution and postmortem analysis, contributing to production resilience and uptime.

• Represent engineering in cross-org discussions; advocate for platform scalability, security, and technical integrity.

• Author design documents, contribute to architectural reviews, and support long-term technology strategy.

What Success Looks Like:

• You are widely recognized as a key technical leader across multiple teams or product lines.

• Your architecture patterns, code, and reviews uplift engineering quality and velocity.

• You deliver systems that are scalable, secure, and maintainable under real-world load.

• You guide teams through change and complex decisions with clarity and confidence.

• You mentor Staff and Senior Engineers, helping raise the technical bar for the entire org.

Candidate Requirements:

Required:

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deep backend or platform focus.

• Expertise in designing and operating distributed systems and cloud-native services.

• Proficient in Node.js.

• Strong command of databases (SQL and/or NoSQL), API design, CI/CD, and observability tooling.

• Experience influencing architecture and technical direction across engineering teams.

• Excellent communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.

• Demonstrated leadership in mentoring, technical influence, and cross-functional alignment.

Preferred:

• Experience in Fintech, Banking, or regulated domains.

• Python, Java, or C#, a plus

• Background in secure development, PCI compliance, or data-sensitive infrastructure.

• Familiarity with AWS, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and event-driven systems.

• Contributions to engineering culture, tooling, and internal platforms.

Work Environment & Culture:

We believe that performance and experience go hand in hand - an exceptional employee experience is earned through contribution. We are a results-driven team, grounded in our core values: ownership, authenticity, service, trust, innovation, and camaraderie.

Our culture is built for those who want to make an impact. We challenge each other to grow, celebrate progress, and support one another through shared goals and real connection. Whether you're building technology, serving clients, or supporting internal teams, you’ll be part of a company that empowers you to perform at your best and be known for results.

Compensation and Benefits:

Compensation range: $138k-$227k

We invest in the whole employee - personally and professionally. Our benefits package is designed to support your well-being, growth, and success - both inside and outside of work.

Financial Wellness

• Bonus programs

• 401(k) match

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

• HSA and FSA options

• Financial wellness resources and employee discount programs

Health & Well-being

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage

• Mental health support for employees and dependents through Lyra Health

• Family planning and women’s health benefits through Carrot

• Gym membership reimbursement and virtual wellness programs (including yoga)

Time Off

• 3 weeks PTO to start, with unlimited PTO after year one

Growth & Development

• Education expense reimbursement

• Leadership development programs

• Certified Payments Professional (CPP) certification support

We believe great performance starts with feeling supported - and we’ve built our benefits with that in mind.

Traditional Physical Requirements:

• Requires prolonged sitting, standing, bending, stooping and stretching.

• Requires the ability to lift 10 pounds.

• Requires eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity and a normal range of hearing and vision (with or without correction).

Join our team at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. and be part of a dynamic and innovative company that is transforming the financial technology landscape. Together, we can shape the future of payments and banking solutions while providing unmatched value to our clients.