Principal Engineer Gateway Services (EU)

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Within Gateway Services, we are building our next generation omni-commerce Gateway. We are currently hiring a Principal/Distinguished Engineer to support teams within this domain. In this role you will lead highly technical and strategic engineering initiatives on mission-critical platforms across our team, enabling every engineer to do their best work. Your role will be tasked with solving the most complex, challenging technical problems across this team to meet our demanding needs. You will play an influential role in partnership with the engineering leadership group and other cross-divisional VPs of Engineering, owning technical vision and direction as well as Developer Experience.

In order to excel in this role you will possess:

• Great communication skills.
• Ability to influence across teams and with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to drive vision and strategy for our overall architecture to support scale, performance, resiliency and reliability of our platform.
• Have created a reference architecture for a group of engineers to learn from, not just diagrams but code.
• Come from a technical background, extremely proficient in microservices architectures, architecture patterns, having created architectures that allow services to be shipped to production multiple times a day as independently releasable microservices.
• Be a keen coder and have the ability to roll up your sleeves and ship high quality production code for critical services.
• Be able to quickly identify problems with our current state solutions and come to solutions quickly to enable critical delivery to move.
• An evangelist who can always keep an eye on the future, and in doing so help keep our teams up to speed on the latest and greatest happenings within technology.
• Strong appreciation of Event Storming and DDD having applied these methodologies in shaping microservices architectures.
• Experience in creating / engineering Cloud Native Architectures.

Additional Experience (nice to have):

• Some experience with Model Context Protocol / AI having had some experience in how this can shape the future of software engineering.
• Experience in Java within low latency environments.
• Experience of chaos engineering and patterns that ensure high uptime and resiliency.

Education: Degree in Computer Science or Similar Technical Discipline. 10+ years experience having come from a software engineering background.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.