3 days ago
Remote, AustraliaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain high-volume, real-time payment APIs with clean, tested, and observable code.
- Contribute to technical designs and RFCs and turn them into well-scoped, shippable work.
- Review peer code and participate in regular pairing.
- Collaborate with Platform, Security, and Incident Management teams.
- Participate in the shared on-call rotation after becoming sufficiently familiar with the systems.
- Deliver features end to end, from requirements and design through production support.
Requirements
- Commercial experience with backend development and API development in a backend language.
- Experience with Ruby or Go, or strong backend fundamentals and willingness to learn them.
- Experience with test-driven development, code review, and continuous delivery.
- Exposure to public cloud, preferably AWS, or event-driven systems is a plus.
- Ability to own work from inception through production and verify that it operates correctly.
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, with careful code review and respect for data security boundaries.
- Clear, open communication and willingness to ask for help and raise risks early.
- React and TypeScript experience is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote-first work with the opportunity to work anywhere in Australia, plus access to premium coworking spaces and hubs in Byron Bay, Sydney, and Melbourne.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Three paid Wellbeing Days annually and access to an Employee Assistance Program.
- Individual annual learning budget and four paid Growth & Impact Days annually for professional development.
- $500 remote-work setup budget upon commencement and $300 annually from the second Zeptoversary.
- Onboarding buddy support and close collaboration with senior engineers.
- Background checks are conducted as part of the recruitment process.
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About Zepto
Zepto is pioneering the future of payments through real-time, account-to-account merchant payment solutions designed for the on-demand digital economy. Zepto's API opens a unique set of access points to Australia's payments infrastructure enabling businesses to take, make and manage payments in real-time — all the time — between bank accounts in faster, data-rich ways that can transform business processes, customer experience and costs.