Principal Software Engineer

2 weeks ago


Singapore cloudpay Full time

About CloudPay:

CloudPay is the leading global pay solution and winner of GPA's Payroll Software Supplier of the year award 2021.

Listed as a top 100 software company by The Software Report, we provide all employee pay processes - including payroll, payments, and on-demand pay through our cutting-edge SaaS platform and mobile app.


CloudPay draws on 25+ years' experience to manage global payroll and payments in over 1,500 global entities, for a diverse range of multinational customers, including Visa, Expedia, GSK, and Airbnb.

With more than 800 staff across 11 global offices, we value our employees and strive to create a great workplace where everyone is valued, heard, inspired, and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work.

We are looking for passionate individuals who maintain a strong desire to succeed.


The role provides support to Agile Engineering Teams making a critical difference to project success, overall platform technical direction and operational resilience.

The Principal Engineer will work as part of the team, primarily in analyzing, designing and implementing solutions on microservices framework.


Daily Duties and Main Responsibilities will include:

  • Working collaboratively with Agile Teams to understand the business domain and client requirements; drive analysis, architecture/design and development of quality deliverables and technical solutions crossing a broad spectrum of technologies.
  • Designing and building solutions in the context of a legacy platform transitioning to microservice architecture.
o Help establish the governance, guiding principles, design patterns, and service templates of

microservices development in the Engineering Team

o Champion the standards and guiding principles of microservices development, upholding best

practices and relevant industry standards in the team

  • Advising Engineering and Product Management on Technical and Architectural policy and strategy.
o Includes selecting and providing guidance on the appropriate design methodology (such as object
- oriented, function-oriented, component-based) and strategies to be used within a project.

o Determining design alternatives with trade-off analysis.

  • Technical leadership of architectural and engineering initiatives
o Adoption of new technologies

o Identifying and refactoring poor performing or technically inferior areas of the Platform- Supporting and diagnosing complex platform issues with respect to performance, security, scalability, maintainability and reliability upon deployment- Facilitating code reviews to ensure the quality of the CloudPay code base adheres to agreed standards; identifying improvements to coding and technical standards- Coaching more junior engineers on technical strategy, coding standards and daily tasks

Attributes and Experience Required:

  • Extensive handson development experience, minimum of 10years with a strong foundation in OOP and Design Patterns, Clean code and SOLID principles
  • Strong working knowledge of Java 11, Spring framework or Spring boot, JavaScript, JQuery and RESTful Web-Services
  • Spring Boot web, Security, Actuator, AMQP, JPA, batch and mail
  • Java 17 working knowledge is an edge
  • Demonstrable experience in microservice architecture and design patterns, and implementing microservices
  • Experience in Saga design pattern and eventdriven microservices
  • Experience in RabbitMQ (integration pattern) or any AMQPbased messaging
  • Experience working with relational (MySQL/MariaDB) or NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) database management systems and ability to write complex queries.
  • Experience in APIdriven development
  • Comfortable in engaging with a wide range of roles (juniors, seniors, other stakeholders) to collaborate on solutions and communicate technical ideas
  • Soft skills needed:
  • Good team player
  • Excellent logical, analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Selfstarter, able to own, prioritize and plan own workloads
  • Flexibility in working to tight timescales to meet release deadlines
  • The following would be an advantage:
  • Experience in , AngularJS, React-Redux,
  • Background in Payroll, HR or other financial domains
  • Experience in Automation, Workflow Engines, Workflow Process Automation

Package and Benefits:

  • Competitive annual salary and benefits
  • Fully paid annual leave, plus bank holidays
  • Earned Wage Access (via CloudPay Now app)
  • Flexible remote working
  • Birthday leave
  • Group Medical Benefit
  • Personal and professional development opportunities
  • Friendly working environment


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