Job Description
A large bank/ financial company in the Cincinnati, OH area is seeking a Principal Software Engineer with Java and Ruby expertise for a contract opportunity. This person can sit remotely, but will need to work EST hours and have proven success in a virtual environment.

This Principal Software Engineer will operate at the intersection of software engineering and production systems, embedded within a high-impact B2B payments platform. They will partner closely with product, SRE, platform, and operations teams to diagnose complex production issues and drive long-term system reliability improvements.

This is a highly hands-on role (near 100% development) focused on both building and stabilizing distributed systems. The engineer will develop and maintain Ruby on Rails and Java Spring Boot microservices deployed in AWS using Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform. A key focus will be designing and building services from scratch to support containerization, imp...