<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>About Payoneer</strong></p> <p>Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.</p> <p>By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.</p></div><p class="s3"><span class="s2">Principal Engineer – Backend</span></p> <p class="s3"><strong><span class="s4">About Payoneer</span></strong></p> <p class="s3"><span class="s5">Payoneer empowers businesses, professionals, and enterprises to participate in the global economy by enabling seamless cross-border payments and financial services. Our technology powers critical financial workflows at global scale, with a strong focus on reliability, security, scalability, and innovation.</span></p> <p class="s3"><strong><span class="s4">The Opportunity</span></strong></p> <p class="s3"><span class="s5">We are looking for a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s6">Principal Engineer – Backend</span><span class="s5"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to provide technical leadership across Payoneer's backend engineering organization and help shape the next generation of our distributed financial systems.</span></p> <p class="s3"><span class="s5">This is a high-impact individual contributor role for an engineer who combines<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s6">deep expertise in distributed systems and backend architecture with strong product thinking and organizational influence</span><span class="s5">.</span></p> <p class="s3"><span class="s5">As a Principal Engineer, you will work on some of Payoneer's most complex technical challenges, define architectural direction, drive engineering excellence, and enable multiple teams to build reliable, scalable, and resilient systems.</span></p> <p class="s3"><span class="s5">The role also requires an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s6">AI-first mindset</span><span class="s5"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">identifying opportunities to use AI and agentic technologies to improve how we build, operate, and evolve our products and engineering systems. You will also help explore and build systems using emerging protocols and technologies such as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s6">MCP (Model Context Protocol)</span><span class="s5">.</span></p> <p class="s3"><strong><span class="s4">What You'll Do</span></strong></p> <div class="s8"><span class="s7">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">Define and drive the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s6">technical and architectural vision</span><span class="s5"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for large-scale backend systems and distributed platforms.</span></div> <div class="s8"><span class="s7">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">Design and build<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s6">highly scalable, resilient, secure, and fault-tolerant distributed systems</span><span class="s5"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>supporting Payoneer's global financial infrastructure.</span></div> <div class="s8"><span class="s7">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">Solve complex technical problems spanning multiple systems, services, teams, and domains.</span></div> <div class="s8"><span class="s7">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">Drive architectural decisions and establish engineering patterns, standards, and best practices across teams.</span></div> <div class="s8"><span class="s7">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">Lead the evolution of backend platforms toward greater<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s6">scalability, reliability, observability, performance, and developer productivity</span><span class="s5">.</span></div> <div class="s8"><span class="s7">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">Act as a technical leader and trusted advisor to engineering leadership, product leaders, and other stakeholders.</span></div> <div class="s8"><span class="s7">•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5">Work closely with engineering teams to identify and