Principal Software Engineer Mexico, Remote

The salary range for this role is $6,000 - $12,500 per month (Gross in USD)About SezzleWith a mission to financially empower the next generation, Sezzle is revolutionizing the shopping experience beyond payments, blending cutting-edge tech with seamless, interest-free installment plans that make shopping smarter and more accessible.We're not just transforming payments; we're redefining how people discover, interact with, and purchase the things they love while driving real impact on merchant sales through increased conversions and higher order values.As we continue to shape the future of fintech and retail, we're building an innovative, dynamic team passionate about creating more than just a transaction but a truly unique shopping journey.If you're excited about pushing boundaries in tech and delivering a game-changing experience for consumers and merchants alike, come join us at Sezzle and help create the future of shopping!CompensationFor this principal development role, with 12years of experience, the compensation range is6,000 - $12,500per month.This range acknowledges the extensive expertise, leadership capabilities, and significant contributions expected at this level, offering a competitive salary to reflect the value of advanced skills and experience.About the RoleWe are seeking a talented and motivated best-in-class Principal Software Engineer.This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.As a Principal Software Engineer with Sezzle, you will work with highly-motivated teams to tackle interesting and challenging problems across multiple areas of the organization.Your experience and guidance will help other members of the team level-up their own skills as well.You will spend your time working with AI / ML tooling to identify creative uses to fill existing and emerging gaps in the applications.In this backend focused role, you will work closely with stakeholders from Product, Support and the business.You'll also partner with other engineering teams to provide high-quality, scalable, and innovative solutions to internal and customer problems.Your day-to-day responsibilities will include designing, developing, and delivering new features, as well as unblocking and mentoring your teammates.Your work will generally focus on the lower level features and optimizations.This role has both an internal and external focus, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in the day-to-day lives of your peers at Sezzle, enhancing their ability to support our business and customers, and you will have opportunities to take any feedback and iterate.What You'll DoArchitect, design, and buildscalable backend services and APIs primarily inGolang , leveragingAWS ,RDS (MySQL / Postgres) , and modern distributed patterns.Lead Sezzle's AI enablement efforts , identifying opportunities to apply AI and automation to enhance developer productivity, internal tooling, and customer experiences.Partner with teams across the organization tointegrate modern AI capabilitiesPrimarily around tools like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and enhancing team productivity.Drive consistency and scalability across adistributed microservices architecturewhile maintaining performance and reliability.Establish and evolveengineering best practicesfor observability, security, and CI / CD across teams.Mentor engineers and champion a culture of learning, innovation, and operational excellence.Collaborate cross-functionally totranslate business goals into technical roadmapsand deliver results that matter.What We Look For12yearsof professional software engineering experience, including significant backend experience.Deployed significant changes to a production application in the past 30 days.Strong proficiency inGolang , with experience building and maintainingRESTful APIs.Expertise withSQL-based RDBMSMySQL, PostgreSQL) and experience optimizing schema and queries for performance at scale.Solid understanding ofdistributed systems design patternse.g., transactional outbox, event-driven architecture, queues).Demonstrated ability tobring new ideas forward , influence decisions, and lead complex technical initiatives.Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.Preferred Knowledge and SkillsProficiency inobservability toolsPrometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic).Experience withAWS cloud infrastructure , mainly AWS Aurora RDS, both MySQL and Postgres.Experience infintech , payments, BNPL, or consumer lending - familiarity with financial compliance, credit decisioning, or transaction processing systems.Experience withCI / CD pipelinescontainerized microservicesDocker, Kubernetes).Working knowledge ofTypeScript ,React , orReact Native.Familiarity withAI / ML toolinge.g., OpenAI API, LangChain, Hugging Face, or custom LLM integrations).Track record of shippingcommercial APIs and data-driven applicationsin high-growth environments.Proven leadership in guiding technical direction, improving system reliability, and scaling engineering organizations.About YouYou have relentlessly high standardsmany people may think your standards are unreasonably high.You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results.You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.You're not bound by conventionyour success--and much of the fun--lies in developing new ways to do things.You need actionspeed matters in business.Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study.We value calculated risk-taking.You earn trustyou listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.You have backbone; disagree, then commityou can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting.You have conviction and are tenacious.You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion.Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.You deliver resultsyou focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion.Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.Languages :Golang, TypeScript, PythonFrontend :TypeScript - React and React NativeVersion Control :CI / CD :GitLabTesting :Developer and AI-driven, focus on automated end-to-end, integration, and unit testsOpen Source :Sezzle is focused on using open source, and we build what we can before buying!What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome?At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers.We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do.Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.J-18808-Ljbffr.