Principal Software Engineer, GO Payments

Brandt Information Services develops platforms that help agencies manage outdoor recreation resources, including licensing, registrations, and reservations. The Principal Software Engineer will lead the architecture, development, and technical standards for secure payment and transaction-processing systems while contributing across product domains and mentoring senior engineers as an individual contributor.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of complex technical solutions that meet functional, performance, and security requirements
• Translate ambiguous business and product requirements into a clear technical plan and execute against it
• Write high-quality, maintainable, testable code, and take ownership of the most complex or critical components on your team
• Conduct code reviews and design reviews as a peer contributor, raising the bar through your own standard of work rather than through formal management
• Collaborate across product, architecture, QA, and DevOps to ensure end-to-end delivery quality
• Advocate for engineering best practices, coding standards, and strong CI/CD discipline
• Identify and resolve technical risks and dependencies early in the development lifecycle
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies and tools, including AI-assisted development, to drive modernization and efficiency
• Move across product domains (Licensing, Registrations, Reservations, and beyond) as business priorities shift
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers directly, without a formal reporting line, raising the technical bar through review and example
• Design, build, and maintain secure, PCI-compliant payment and transaction-processing systems that power license, registration, and reservation purchases across our agency partners
• Integrate with third-party payment gateways and processors, ensuring transaction integrity, accurate reconciliation, and resilience at scale
• Partner with compliance and product stakeholders to navigate payment-industry regulations and security standards (e.g., PCI DSS) as the platform evolves

Requirements:

• Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder
• Remote Work Within the Continental United States
• Strong foundation in C# and .NET
• Front-end experience with Angular, React, or Blazor
• RESTful APIs, microservices, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
• Relational databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL) and ORMs (e.g., Entity Framework)
• DevOps practices and tools (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including experience setting technical direction across multiple teams
• Extensive experience in the fintech space is required for this opening, specifically hands-on work building or maintaining payment and transaction-processing software
• Familiarity with payment gateways/processors, PCI DSS, and transaction reconciliation is a strong plus
• Nice to have: containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), contributions to open-source projects or technical blogs