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Senior Product Engineer - Payments Team

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3 months ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead payments projects end-to-end, including discovery, PSP integration design, development, rollout, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Expand local payment methods and payment rails across priority markets.
  • Build card issuing capabilities including ledgers, authorization flows, controls, and operational tooling.
  • Scale payment processing infrastructure to support 10x growth.
  • Improve multi-currency conversion and FX capabilities across more than 20 currencies.
  • Partner with Product and PayOps to understand organizer and traveler needs and develop effective payment solutions.
  • Own the reliability of the payments system and participate in production on-call and incident response.
  • Contribute to engineering practices, technical excellence, team culture, and mentoring, including AI-related engineering practices.

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 deploying and troubleshooting integrations across PSPs, card acquirer ecosystems, and 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 development experience with React for payment flows.
  • Expertise designing distributed systems involving double-entry ledgers, reconciliation pipelines, money movement state machines, idempotency, exactly-once semantics, event-driven architectures, webhooks, and reliable consumer patterns.
  • Direct production on-call experience, including writing post-mortems and leading incident response.
  • Strong written and verbal communication and experience collaborating cross-functionally in distributed, multicultural environments.
  • Experience using AI tools to improve engineering workflows and mentoring others on AI concepts.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and modern CI/CD practices.
  • Experience handling FX and multi-currency logic in application code.
  • Preferred experience launching payment methods or PSP integrations, operating card issuing programs, or building marketplace and two-sided platform payments.
  • Direct card issuing experience, including BIN sponsorship, processor integrations, controls, and dispute handling, is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and generous paid time off through an unlimited Time to Recharge policy.
  • Remote-friendly work culture with up to four weeks per calendar year working temporarily from another approved location.
  • Two-week cross-functional onboarding program.
  • Annual team off-site.
  • Cycle-to-work scheme through Swapfiets 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, travel-loving team environment.

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