Our Purpose
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Title And Summary
Principal Engineer

Overview
In the milliseconds between when a card is swiped and an approval is returned, Authorization Decisioning delivers more than 20 market-facing services—including industry leading fraud detection—at global scale. Every day, our platforms apply advanced computational intelligence to billions of transactions worldwide, forming part of the critical financial infrastructure for multiple nation states.

As a Principal Software Engineer, you are a technical authority and wayfinder. You provide broad technical leadership across engineering,



architecture, product, and operations, shaping the evolution of a highly available, high throughput, globally distributed platform. You are hands-on and influential—experimenting, building, mentoring, and guiding teams from ideation through production and sustained operation.

This role blends deep technical contribution with organizational leadership, driving architectural clarity, engineering excellence, and long term platform resilience.

Role & Scope
- 20–40% hands-on individual contributor, with the remainder focused on technical leadership, architecture, and organizational impact
- Recognized as a technical expert and thought leader within a domain and across teams
- Drives innovation, architectural coherence, and engineering standards across multiple services and programs
- Operates effectively across organizational boundaries, partnering with product, architecture, infrastructure, secu

📌 Principal Engineer (Pune Division)
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📍 Pune Division