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Principal Architect

Paysafe

Paysafe

IT
Jacksonville, FL, USA
Posted on Oct 14, 2025

The candidate should be willing to work in an international, multicultural, and fast-growing company that is constantly facing changes.

What you will do:

  • Advocates for cohesion of work to the architecture vision for DW

  • Participates in the architecture community

  • Communicate/evangelize/train teams on a group platform

  • Oversee the technical realization of the architecture to ensure consistency with the initial design, and make adjustments to accommodate the reality in the field

  • Technology and Design Proof of Concepts

  • Technology Authority

  • Support Tooling Decisions

  • Designs data model for new components with consultation from BI group, database developer and developers

  • Design new solutions or evolve existing solutions to fulfill business requirements

  • Defines technology standards and guidelines

  • Identify performance, scalability and stability impacts

  • Ensure appropriate departments are notified and present for design discussions

  • Consult with all developers in design creation. Architects own responsibility for long-term system design and have the final say in design when disagreements arise.

  • Provides technical guidance and coaching to developers and engineers

  • Assess new technologies to be included in the standard technology stack of the platform

  • Provides technical and organizational insight on the platform to other technical departments (e.g. InfoSec)

  • Provides technical feedback for Product owners in making decisions on product implementation and prioritization

  • Collaborates with stakeholders to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new applications or components to ensure the architecture will fulfill these.

To be successful you need to have

  • Hands-on experience with Java, distributed revision control systems and relational and NoSQL databases

  • Knowledge of Unix system fundamentals

  • Experience in building server-side components for large-scale web applications

  • Passionate about technology, optimization and scalability

  • Ability to understand the architectural perspective on technology

  • Leadership skills

  • Previous experience in an Agile environment

  • Very good command of English