Job Description
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 hig