Principal Software Engineer

Company Overview At Zuora, we do Modern Business . We’re helping people subscribe to new ways of doing business that are better for people, companies, and ultimately the planet. It’s an approach resulting from the shift to the Subscription Economy that puts customers first by building recurring relationships instead of one-time product sales and focuses on sustainable growth. Through our leading expertise and multi-product suite, we are transforming all industries and working with the world’s most innovative companies to monetize new business models, nurture subscriber relationships and optimize their digital experiences. The Team Role Zuora provides a platform for managing subscription-based businesses, handling billing, invoicing, and payments. It also integrates with accounting systems as a sub-ledger for subscription revenue. Key functions include automating recurring billing, managing revenue recognition, and providing financial reports.You can read more about it at https://knowledgecenter.zuora.com/Zuora_Payments This position expects you to work based out of the Bangalore Office. WHAT YOU’LL ACHIEVE Architect and deliver secure, reliable, and scalable payment solutions that support core transaction lifecycles end-to-end. Design and evolve payments frameworks, APIs, and flows including checkout forms, hosted payment pages, and payment links that accelerate product development and improve global adoption. Guide system design trade-offs by balancing simplicity, performance, security, compliance, and cost throughout the payment journey. Architect and evolve payment orchestration layers to intelligently route transactions across multiple providers, optimize costs, maximize authorization rates, ensure redundancy, and reduce regional or processor dependencies. Anticipate fintech and regulatory trends to define an architectural vision that ensures competitiveness, compliance, and readiness for future payment innovations. Enable frictionless checkout experiences with embedded forms, localized hosted flows, and customizable links that maximize conversion and minimize abandonment. Support global readiness with diverse payment methods, multicurrency support, localized checkout experiences, and adherence to regional compliance requirements. Partner across Product, Risk, Compliance, and UX to ensure payment architecture aligns with customer needs, regulatory demands, and business growth goals. Provide technical thought leadership by mentoring engineers and architects, raising standards for design and execution in payment systems. Champion engineering excellence through adoption of best practices, observability, metrics-driven improvements, and continuous innovation in payments transaction processing. Simplify developer and partner adoption by defining clear SDKs, API contracts, webhooks, and integration tooling that ensure maintainability and long-term success. Architect for high-volume transaction processing with redundancy, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency built-in. Strengthen risk, fraud, and dispute management with real-time monitoring, analytics, and adaptive defense mechanisms. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL Education Experience: BTech/BE in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline. 16+ years of experience in full-stack development and enterprise-scale architecture. Technical Mastery: Expert-level experience with Java/Spring, data structures algorithms, and building large-scale distributed systems. Deep understanding of system design, microservices frameworks (Spring Boot, Dropwizard, etc.), PaaS environments, and modern web/cloud technologies (REST, gRPC, JSON, Protobufs). Strong background in database design, object modeling, and API ecosystem development. Awareness of trade-offs in architecture (scalability vs. cost, flexibility vs. complexity) to deliver long-term value. Architectural Vision: Proven ability to design scalable, high-performance platforms supp ... (truncated, view full listing at source)