Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Demos Principal Engineer

Position Summary

We are seeking a Principal Engineer to define the architectural vision and lead the development of our demo environments, which are designed to closely reflect a dynamic, ever-evolving live production ecosystem. This role is responsible for establishing scalable, resilient, and maintainable architectures that enable high-fidelity product demonstrations and client walkthroughs.

As a senior technical leader, the Principal Engineer shapes the long-term strategy for demo platform architecture, ensuring environments remain secure, performant, data-driven, and aligned with the evolution of the core SaaS platform. The role provides cross-team technical leadership, guiding design decisions across product domains, reducing technical friction, and proactively managing dependencies to ensure demo capabilities remain accurate, future-proof, and representative of real-world use cases.

Team Overview

The Demos Team plays a critical role in showcasing our platform through high-impact, end-to-end product demonstrations. The team is responsible for building, maintaining, and presenting a test environment that closely mirrors the live production ecosystem. Team members will deliver tailored client walkthroughs that highlight real-world use cases, emerging capabilities, and differentiated value, requiring a balance of technical fluency, storytelling, and adaptability in a fast-changing environment.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Own the end-to-end architectural vision for demo environments that accurately reflect production behavior while remaining scalable, secure, and easy to evolve
Lead the design and delivery of a cohesive demo platform that supports reusable scenarios, rapid updates, and consistent client experiences
Set architectural patterns and technical guardrails that enable realistic data flows, integrations, and system interactions across demo environments
Establish and maintain standards for system design, observability, security, and developer/demo engineer experience, including sandboxing and documentation
Define developer experience standards including sandbox environments, documentation, and onboarding flows
Guide the incorporation of advanced capabilities such as AI-driven features, analytics, and personalization into demo environments in alignment with platform direction
Evaluate new technologies and partner with infrastructure, security, and operations teams to ensure demo environments are reliable, compliant, and sustainable

Qualifications

12+ years of experience in software engineering and enterprise architecture
Deep expertise in designing and managing API-first platforms and developer ecosystems
Experience with fintech and banking standards including ISO 20022, Open Banking, and FDX
Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies such as GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, containers, and service mesh
Proficient in distributed systems, multi-tenancy, and event-driven architecture
Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML into product and platform architecture
Strong grasp of financial regulatory, security, and data compliance requirements
Proven leadership in guiding high-performing engineering teams
Expertise in SRE and DevOps practices including CI/CD tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Google Cloud Build
Strong collaboration and communication skills to lead cross-functional initiatives and articulate complex concepts
Proven experience defining and leading architecture for complex, distributed systems, with the ability to balance production fidelity, scalability, and maintainability
Experience designing developer-facing platforms or environments, such as sandboxes, reference implementations, or simulation/test environments
Ability to operate effectively in fast-changing environments, translating evolving platform capabilities into stable, high-quality demo experiences

Statement to Third Party Agencies

To ALL recruitment agencies: Candescent only accepts resumes from agencies on the preferred supplier list. Please do not forward resumes to our applicant tracking system, Candescent employees, or any Candescent facility. Candescent is not responsible for any fees or charges associated with unsolicited resumes.