3 days ago
Remote, AustraliaSenior
Responsibilities
- Build, scale, and maintain high-volume, real-time payment APIs in a mission-critical regulated environment.
- Design architecture, write RFCs, and ship clean, observable, and secure software.
- Collaborate with Platform, Security, and Incident Management teams and participate in a shared on-call rotation.
- Mentor and pair with peers while improving code quality, system design, and engineering practices.
- Lead significant features from requirements through production and own the team’s product area.
- Improve observability, developer tooling, test infrastructure, or platform architecture.
- Help establish effective and rigorous use of AI engineering tools.
Requirements
- Deep experience with a backend programming language and API development.
- Experience with Ruby or Go, or strong transferable backend engineering experience.
- Practical experience with public cloud, preferably AWS, event-driven patterns, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.
- A track record of maintaining performance and high availability under heavy transaction loads.
- Ability to collaborate through written drafts and RFCs and proactively identify risks.
- Experience using AI development tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, with attention to data security and rigorous review.
- Front-end experience with React and TypeScript is a bonus.
Benefits
- Remote-first work with the opportunity to work anywhere in Australia, plus access to premium co-working spaces and Byron Bay, Sydney, and Melbourne hubs.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Three paid Wellbeing Days per year and access to an Employee Assistance Program.
- Individual annual learning budget and four paid Growth & Impact Days each year.
- $500 remote work budget upon commencement and $300 annually from the second Zeptoversary.
- 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.