Principal Software Engineer - Automation

Q2ebanking · Austin, Texas · Posted 2026-08-28

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As passionate about our people as we are about our mission. ===============================================================

Why Join Q2?

Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance companies, and fintechs in the U.S. and internationally. Our mission is simple: build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology—and we do that by empowering our people to help create success for our customers.

What Makes Q2 Special?

Being as passionate about our people as we are about our mission. We celebrate our employees in many ways through our year-round Q2 ChangeMakers awards program and global moments of recognition and connection. We invest in the growth and development of our team members through ongoing learning opportunities, internal mobility, and meaningful leadership relationships. We also know that nothing builds trust and collaboration like having fun and giving back together. From company-wide volunteer days to events like our Q2 Homecoming Week—featuring learning, community service, and culture-building experiences—we create opportunities to connect, grow, and make an impact.

Why this role:

Most engineering roles hand you a slice. A product owner sets the “what,” a manager sets the “how,” and you build your piece inside someone else’s sprint. This is not that role.

We don’t build the product our customers log into — we build the factory that builds it, and the systems that detect the moment anything starts to break. When our tooling works, the entire organization finds and fixes customer problems faster. When it doesn’t, everyone feels it. That is the leverage of this role, and it is why the work sits at the center of how we run reliability.

You’ll be handed real business problems — often ambiguous, sometimes dropped on us overnight — and trusted to solve them end to end: shadow the people living the problem, prototype, write the architecture, socialize it with senior and executive leaders, then build it and operationalize it so the team can run it. You’ll work full-stack, fly independently, and own what you ship. You’ll build things that matter and get used across the entire company.

If optimizing a single bolt to a tenth of a millimeter for the next four months sounds like a good year, this isn’t your role. If you’d rather build the thing that goes to Mars, keep reading.

What you’ll do:

What sets a Principal apart here:

The differentiator in this role is not how much code you can write — with modern AI, strong engineers can produce in any stack. The differentiator is business translation. When a user says “I need direct access to the server to do X,” a Principal hears the business outcome underneath the request and designs a more secure, simpler way to reach it within our security, access, and architecture constraints. You turn “here’s what I want” into “here’s what you actually need” — and you can defend that architecture to a room of engineers and to the executive team in the same afternoon.

RESPONSIBILITIES

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

This position requires fluent written and oral communication in English.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Health & Wellness

Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer.

Our Culture & Commitment:

We’re proud to foster a supportive, inclusive environment where career growth, collaboration, and wellness are prioritized. And our benefits go beyond healthcare—offering resources for physical, mental, and professional well-being. Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer. Q2 employees are encouraged to give back through volunteer work and nonprofit support through our Spark Program (see more). We believe in making an impact—in the industry and in the community.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.

Applicants in California or Washington State may not be exempt from federal and state overtime requirements

About Q2ebanking

Q2ebanking designs virtual, mobile and voice banking applications for financial institutions.

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Updated 2026-10-10.