Principal Back-end Engineer; Golang - Finance

Position: Principal Back-end Engineer (Golang) - Finance Location: New York About TruelogicAt Truelogic we are a leading provider of nearshore staff augmentation services headquartered in New York.

For over two decades, we’ve been delivering top-tier technology solutions to companies of all sizes, from innovative startups to industry leaders, helping them achieve their digital transformation goals.

Our team of 600+ highly skilled tech professionals, based in Latin America, drives digital disruption by partnering with U.

S. companies on their most impactful projects.

Whether collaborating with Fortune 500 giants or scaling startups, we deliver results that make a difference.

By applying for this position, you’re taking the first step in joining a dynamic team that values your expertise and aspirations.

We aim to align your skills with opportunities that foster exceptional career growth and success while contributing to transformative projects that shape the future.

Our ClientLeading the development of a next-generation digital banking platform for a confidential client headquartered in Abu Dhabi.

The platform serves as a foundational banking backbone, enabling secure, scalable, and modular financial operations, including real-world transactions, digital asset custody, and future blockchain interoperability.

This is a greenfield system built with no legacy constraints, but with strict expectations around financial correctness, architectural rigor, and long-term platform evolution.

The system will integrate with external banking services, payment rails, and KYC providers and must be designed to operate reliably under real financial and regulatory pressure.

Job Summary We are seeking Principal Back-End Engineers to define and build the core backend platform of a digital bank.

This is not a feature-delivery role.

You will be responsible for foundational architectural decisions that shape how the entire system operates, scales, and evolves over time.

You will act as a technical authority, working closely with the CTO and peer Principal Engineers to establish platform-wide standards, guarantees, and system boundaries.

Success in this role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, transaction-heavy architectures, and Golang, as well as the ability to think several years ahead in system design.

ResponsibilitiesPlatform & Architecture LeadershipDefine the end-to-end backend platform architecture, including core services, workflows, and system boundaries.

Establish architectural principles for transaction management, state consistency, durability, and fault tolerance.

Make and defend early, high-impact architectural decisions that constrain and enable future development.

Align architecture across modules to ensure long-term coherence, scalability, and regulatory readiness.

System Design & ImplementationDesign and implement production-grade backend systems in Golang that handle real financial transactions.

Architect systems with explicit workflow and state models for entities such as payments, transactions, and account operations.

Define and evolve service contracts, APIs, and integration patterns across the platform.

Build systems that integrate cleanly with enterprise-grade external providers (payments, KYC, banking rails).

Distributed Systems & ReliabilityDesign for failure-first scenarios, including retries, idempotency, compensation, and recovery.

Ensure correctness under concurrency, partial failure, and distributed execution.

Define consistency guarantees and trade-offs appropriate for financial systems.

Anticipate operational and scaling challenges before they surface in production.

Technical Authority & CollaborationAct as a technical reference point for backend and platform decisions.

Review designs and implementations from other engineers to ensure alignment with platform standards.

Collaborate with Product, Security, and Infrastructure stakeholders while maintaining architectural integrity.

Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications and Job Requirements Expert-level Golang experience in production systems.

Proven experience designing distributed systems, not just implementing them.

Demonstrated ownership of platform-level architecture or foundational backend systems.

Strong background in transactional systems, including workflow, state, and consistency management.

Ability to independently design, implement, and evolve mission-critical backend platforms.

Experience operating in multi-service, multi-integration enterprise environments.

Strong design-first mindset: architecture precedes implementation.

What We Offer 100% Remote Work: Enjoy the freedom to work from the location that helps you thrive.

All it takes is a laptop and a reliable internet connection.

Highly Competitive USD Pay: Earn an excellent, market-leading compensation in USD, that goes beyond typical market offerings.

Paid Time Off: We value your well-being.

Our paid time off policies ensure you have the chance to unwind and recharge when needed.

Work with Autonomy: Enjoy the…