Employment Type: Full-time, permanent Work Model: Remote within Canada Through contemporary payment infrastructure, intelligent automation, AI-powered operations, and emerging technologies such as stablecoins and blockchain, we are building faster, simpler, and more scalable global B2B payment experiences. We are looking for a transformative Principal Engineer to help define the next generation of Veem’s technical architecture and platform strategy. This is one of the most senior individual-contributor engineering roles at Veem.
You will partner closely with executive leadership and teams across Engineering, Product, Data, Security, Compliance, and Operations to lead mission-critical initiatives across payments infrastructure, AI-enabled systems, distributed architecture, and emerging financial technologies. We are looking for a hands‑on technical leader who can shape strategy, influence across the organization, mentor senior engineers, and drive meaningful technical transformation. Define and drive Veem’s long-term technical architecture across core payments, platform, data, integration, and operational systems.
Lead complex, cross-functional engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems. Drive modernization efforts, improve platform scalability, and reduce technical debt. Establish engineering standards for architecture, reliability, observability, security, testing, and operational excellence.
Lead AI transformation initiatives across engineering and operations. Help shape Veem’s strategy around stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and modern payment rails. Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders while raising the engineering bar across the organization.
Serve as a trusted technical advisor to executive and engineering leadership. Translate business priorities into scalable, practical, and commercially valuable technical solutions. Approximately 12–18 years of software engineering experience.
Proven experience operating at Staff+, Senior Staff, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent level.
Strong hands‑on software engineering and architecture capabilities. Demonstrated ability to influence technical strategy without direct authority.
Strong understanding of scalability, data consistency, reliability, security, fault tolerance, and production operations. Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to executive and non‑technical audiences. Payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, ledgering, treasury, foreign exchange, or financial APIs.
Stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, digital wallets, crypto payments, or digital assets.
Technical
Environment AWS, GCP, or Azure Messaging, streaming, and data systems You will help define how businesses move money internationally as the industry evolves toward faster, more intelligent, and more flexible payment infrastructure. Lead High-Impact Technical Transformation This role provides the scope and influence to drive meaningful change across architecture, engineering practices, platform capabilities, and organizational strategy. You will have the opportunity to move beyond theoretical experimentation and help determine how these technologies can be used in real-world financial systems.
You will partner directly with senior leadership and contribute to decisions that shape Veem’s long-term product and technology direction.
Maintain
Hands‑On Technical Impact This is a senior leadership role for someone who still wants to engage deeply in architecture, systems, and technical problem-solving. The systems you help design will support real businesses moving real money across borders. Reliability, speed, trust, and technical quality directly affect our customers.
Mentor and Multiply Engineering Talent You will have the opportunity to develop senior engineers, strengthen technical leadership, and help shape Veem’s engineering culture.
Meaningful Equity Upside In addition to competitive compensation, this role includes equity participation and the opportunity to share in the long‑term value created as Veem continues to grow. Build a deep understanding of Veem’s platform, architecture, customers, payment flows, and business strategy. Establish robust relationships with Engineering, Product, Security, Compliance, Data, Operations, and executive leadership.
Identify the most important architectural risks, constraints, and opportunities across the platform. Create clear technical direction for several of Veem’s highest‑priority initiatives. Improve the quality and consistency of architecture and technical decision‑making across teams.
Introduce practical AI capabilities that improve engineering productivity or operational performance. Help define Veem’s technical approach to stablecoins and emerging payment infrastructure. Mentor senior engineers and help strengthen technical leadership across the organization.
Establish yourself as a trusted technical advisor who can bring clarity to Veem’s most complex engineering challenges. Veem is entering an important stage of its technical evolution. The future of global payments will be shaped by intelligent automation, real-time infrastructure, new settlement technologies, stronger platform capabilities, and engineering teams that can turn emerging technology into trusted financial products.
As Principal
Engineer, you will have the opportunity to help build that future. You will influence how Veem’s systems are designed, how our engineering organization operates, and how we use AI, stablecoins, blockchain, and modern cloud technologies to create a stronger global payments platform. If you are a deeply technical, forward-thinking engineering leader who wants to make a company‑wide impact, we would love to hear from you. #
📌 General Engineering Application (Calgary)
🏢 Veem
📍 Calgary