Principal.NET Software Engineer- Cloud Payments Platform

About Versapay 🚀Versapay turns accounts receivable (AR) into a competitive advantage.Inefficient AR processes slow cash flow and stall growth. Versapay removes friction, unlocks working capital, and accelerates momentum — giving finance leaders the clarity and control they need to drive business forward.Versapay automates accounts receivable, removing barriers to collecting and reconciling B2B payments. Our solutions connect finance teams, customers, and business systems in one ecosystem to ensure cash flow clarity. With over 10,000 customers and 5M+ companies transacting on the platform, Versapay processes over 110M transactions and $257B annually.Think you might be the next Veep to join? Read onWe are looking for an experienced .NET Principal Software Engineer to evolve and modernize our payments infrastructure, improve scalability and security, and design new distributed services where they add the most value. You’ll have meaningful ownership over critical payment services and the opportunity to influence technical direction across the platform.You’ll contribute to an established payments platform that our customers use every day, with opportunities to strengthen its architecture and extend its capabilities. You’ll partner closely with Product, Security, Compliance, and Operations, and collaborate with other teams to move shared initiatives forward creating a better experience for our customers.What You'll Do:Platform & Architecture: Own and evolve core payment services for online (CNP), device-based EMV (CP), digital wallets (, Apple Pay, Google Pay), and payment facilitator/orchestration flows.Modernize and improve existing components into more cloud-native, distributed architectures using containers on AWS/Azure.Payment Flows:Own and extend end-to-end payment workflows: authorization, capture, void, refund, tokenization, clearing, funding, settlement, and multi-source reconciliation. Expand capabilities for international payments, including multi-currency and cross-border flows.Integrate with payment service providers (PSPs), EMV card readers, and device SDKs using secure, standards-based messaging.Delivery & Reliability: Improve and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions (automated builds, tests, security scans, packaging, deployments).Design and evolve test automation strategy, covering domain-level logic, API contracts, and integration with external processors and devices.Strengthen platform reliability through observability (metrics, logs, traces), fault-tolerant design, and automated operational workflows.Collaboration & Leadership: Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and Operations to deliver features that balance customer experience, regulatory requirements, risk, and operational robustness.Mentor engineers, lead design and architecture discussions, and influence the long-term strategy for the payments platform.What You'll Bring Significant experience (typically 10+ years) of professional engineering with expert proficiency in C#, .NET, and SQL. · Deep experience in payments: online payments, EMV device-based transactions, digital wallets (, Apple Pay, Google Pay), PayFac/orchestration flows, bank account rails (ACH/EFT), and international/multi-currency payment flows.Proven ability to modernize production financial systems into cloud-native, distributed architecturesFamiliarity with monitoring and observing distributed systems using modern observability toolingProven ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Security, Compliance, and Operations, and to represent engineering effectively to non-technical stakeholdersExperience using AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and code qualityDeep hands-on experience with several of the following:ISO 8583 transaction messaging ISO 20022 data models and payment messagingDUKPT key-management and secure device cryptographyHardware Security Modules (HSMs) and secure key lifecycleEMV payment kernels and card/device authentication flowsStrong knowledge of:Modern API and integration design (RESTful services), asynchronous messaging/queueing, caching, event-driven architecture, high-availability patternsAWS or Azure, containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD automationPCI-DSS, encryption, tokenization, key-rotation, and secure coding principlesNice to Haves: Experience with multi-region cloud architecture and distributed data patterns Experience with modern UX/front-end development (, JavaScript/TypeScript)$160,000 - $190,000 a year#LI-RemoteWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.