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 high-volume payment processing 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 integrations and funds-flow systems across global markets
• Design and implement fault-tolerant distributed systems, ensuring reliability and observability for payment services
• Lead engineering quality initiatives by establishing coding standards and mentoring team members to enhance technical capabilities

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on payment systems or high-volume transactional platforms
• Proven track record of architecting and delivering reliable distributed systems at scale
• Experience leading platform-building efforts and transforming fragmented services into cohesive systems
• Demonstrated ability to own production reliability and lead incident response initiatives
• History of influencing technical direction across teams without direct authority