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 for processing high-volume payment traffic while collaborating cross-functionally to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Key responsibilities

• Define the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for scaling integrations and funds-flow systems across global markets
• Drive engineering quality by establishing coding standards and frameworks that elevate technical performance across the Payments team
• Lead high-stakes scaling and reliability initiatives, anticipating bottlenecks and driving systematic improvements from incident postmortems

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with hands-on experience in building payment systems or high-volume transactional platforms
• Demonstrated track record of architecting fault-tolerant, highly reliable distributed systems at scale
• Experience leading platform-building efforts that unify fragmented services into coherent systems
• Proven ability to own production reliability and lead high-severity incident responses across multiple teams
• History of influencing technical direction across teams and representing areas in organization-level architecture forums