Staff Software Engineer Backend

Job Summary

Owning the architecture and technical direction of the Payments platform, the full-time Staff Software Engineer, Backend will build and evolve distributed systems that process high-volume payment traffic while collaborating cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions in a remote-first environment.

Key responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for scaling payment integrations and systems across global markets
• Design and implement fault-tolerant distributed systems, ensuring reliability and observability for high-volume payment processing
• Establish coding standards and frameworks to enhance engineering quality across the Payments team and related organizations

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, particularly in building payment systems or high-volume transactional platforms
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering reliable distributed systems at scale, handling significant transaction volumes
• Experience leading platform-building initiatives that unify fragmented services into cohesive systems
• Demonstrated ability to manage production reliability and lead high-severity incident responses across teams
• History of influencing technical direction and representing architectural strategies at an organizational level