Senior/Principal Software Engineer (Perl) - OP01957-00

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Lead the design and delivery of a high-performance payment orchestration system while mentoring team members and driving architectural best practices.

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We invite a Principal Software Engineer with expert-level Perl knowledge to join our highly specialized engineering team shaping a critical financial transaction platform. In this strategic, visible role, you’ll lead the design, development, and scaling of a high-performance payment orchestration system that handles large volumes of transactions and requires exceptional reliability. You’ll drive technical decisions, collaborate across teams, and ensure end-to-end delivery of mission-critical features.

🟩 What's in it for you:

  • Own architecture and technical decisions for a high-volume payment platform, supporting a strategic financial tech initiative
  • Work on mission-critical systems that impact the reliability and performance of financial transactions
  • Mentor team members on architecture and design, driving best practices and team growth

✅ Is that you?

  • 5-7+ years of software development experience with deep Perl expertise, including frameworks, libraries, and modules used in production
  • Experience building and maintaining mission-critical, high-throughput backend systems
  • Experience with financial transaction/payment systems (authorization, settlement, reconciliation, fraud prevention)
  • Hands-on experience integrating Perl services with C-based core systems and external APIs
  • Exposure to legacy Perl systems and modernization projects
  • Strong understanding of system integration, abstraction layers, and APIs
  • Experience delivering high-performance, reliable backend components
  • End-to-end delivery ownership (automated tests, quality, resilience, performance)
  • Familiarity with security and compliance standards (PCI-DSS, GDPR, internal policies)
  • Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, code reviews, and modern engineering practices
  • Strong collaboration skills and contribution to architecture and design discussions
  • Excellent communication with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
  • Upper-Intermediate+ English level

Desirable:

  • Background in Payments, FinTech, or Financial Services
  • Experience with Java-based testing frameworks (JUnit/TestNG)
  • Knowledge of DevOps principles, observability, logging, and resilience patterns

🧩Key responsibilities and your contribution

In this role, you’ll lead the design, development, and delivery of critical backend systems, driving architecture decisions and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-performance, reliable software.

 

  • Build and maintain high-performance, high-availability Perl components integrated with C-based systems
  • Develop mapping, customization, and business logic layers to connect with client, gateway, and host systems
  • Own feature delivery end-to-end, including automated testing and ensuring code quality
  • Ensure system reliability, resilience, and performance stability
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and releases
  • Implement observability and monitoring for low-latency, self-recovering backend systems
  • Lead code reviews, architecture discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver features from specification to production
  • Mentor team members in best engineering practices and technical problem-solving

🎾 What's working at Dev.Pro like?

Dev.Pro is a global company that's been building great software since 2011. Our team values fairness, high standards, openness, and inclusivity for everyone — no matter your background


🌐 We are 99.9% remote — you can work from anywhere in the world
🌴 Get 30 paid days off per year to use however you like — vacations, holidays, or personal time
✔️ 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and up to 6 paid days off per year for major family events like weddings, funerals, or the birth of a child
⚡️ Partially covered health insurance after the probation, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months
💵 We pay in U.S. dollars and cover all approved overtime
📓 Join English lessons and Dev.Pro University programs, and take part in fun online activities and team-building events

Our next steps:

✅ Submit a CV in English — ✅ Intro call with a Recruiter — ✅ Internal interview — ✅ Client interview — ✅ Offer

Interested? Find out more:

📋How we work

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Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Partially covered health insurance after the probation, plus a wellness bonus for gym memberships, sports nutrition, and similar needs after 6 months
  • Paid Time Off: 5 paid sick days, up to 60 days of medical leave, and up to 6 paid days off per year for major family events like weddings, funerals, or the birth of a child

We are a US-based outsource software development company that has been delivering exceptional software experience to our clients since 2011, helping technology companies to become industry leaders. Over the past few years, we’ve been hiring specialists all over the world while our main development centers were in Ukraine. Now, we keep expanding and start growing our centers in different parts of the world. Dev.Pro is open to hire specialists from other countries as well as Ukrainians who live outside of Ukraine now. We stand with Ukraine and keep supporting our people by offering a friendly remote environment while adhering to the values of democracy, human rights, and state sovereignty. As a company of professionals, Dev.Pro offers challenging and interesting projects with world-leading clients, a modern technology stack, and career opportunities for both technical and non-technical specialists. We focus on what we value the most: Personal and professional development — get access to trainings, attend English classes with native speakers Openness and support — you can count on setup support and equipment A culture of growth — discover opportunities for yourself with the help of our Career Development Department, getting personal career plan and personality analysis

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