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Senior Product Engineer - Payments Team

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3 months ago
Tallinn, EstoniaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead payments projects end to end, from discovery and PSP integration design through implementation, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Expand local payment methods, including UPI, PIX, and account-to-account rails, across priority markets.
  • Build card issuing capabilities including ledgers, authorization flows, controls, and operational tooling.
  • Scale payment processing reliability toward 10x growth and support multi-currency and FX capabilities across more than 20 currencies.
  • Partner with Product and PayOps to understand organizer and traveler needs and build effective payment solutions.
  • Own payments-system reliability, participate in on-call operations, write post-mortems, and lead incident response.
  • Contribute to engineering practices, technical excellence, team culture, and mentoring, including AI-tool adoption.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of product engineering experience, including 4+ years architecting complex payments systems.
  • Experience at a PSP, acquirer, gateway, or high-scale platform payments team.
  • Production experience integrating and troubleshooting PSPs, card acquirer ecosystems, and diverse payment rails.
  • Deep expertise in settlement, reconciliation, dispute management, 3DS2, webhook management, PCI compliance, and tokenization.
  • Strong backend experience with Ruby on Rails, Kotlin, Python, Go, Java, or Node.js, with the ability to ramp up quickly on Ruby.
  • Full-stack comfort building React interfaces for payment flows.
  • Experience designing distributed payment systems involving double-entry ledgers, reconciliation pipelines, money movement state machines, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, event-driven architectures, webhooks, and reliable consumers.
  • Direct production on-call experience, including post-mortems and incident response leadership.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and modern CI/CD practices, including AWS or GCP and Kubernetes.
  • Experience handling FX and multi-currency logic directly in the application layer.
  • Strong written and verbal communication and cross-functional collaboration skills in distributed, multicultural environments.
  • Pragmatic use of AI tools and ability to mentor and train others on AI concepts.
  • Preferred: experience launching payment methods or PSP integrations, operating card-issuing programs, or building marketplace and two-sided-platform payment flows.
  • Bonus: card issuing experience including BIN sponsorship, processor integrations, controls, and dispute handling.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and salary.
  • Unlimited paid time off through the Time to Recharge policy.
  • Remote-friendly work culture; employees are hired in a designated country and eligible employees may work temporarily from another approved location for up to four weeks per calendar year.
  • Two-week cross-functional onboarding program.
  • Annual team off-site.
  • Cycle-to-work scheme through a Swapfiets subscription or commuting reimbursement.
  • Monday and Thursday team lunches and after-work social events.
  • Extensive paid family leave.
  • Three paid volunteer days per year.
  • Cutting-edge equipment and tools.
  • International team with travel-focused culture.

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