23 days ago
Remote, WorldwideStaff+
Base Salary
$170k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend services for payments, money movement, billing, settlements, reconciliation, and ledger systems.
- Lead architecture for highly available, fault-tolerant financial platforms that process and track millions of dollars in transactions.
- Provide technical leadership on distributed systems, financial data consistency, transaction integrity, and platform strategy.
- Drive initiatives from requirements gathering and technical design through implementation, rollout, and operational excellence.
- Integrate systems with payment processors, banking partners, card networks, and financial service providers.
- Design resilient ledger, settlement, and reconciliation workflows that maintain financial accuracy.
- Promote observability, automated testing, reliability engineering, CI/CD, and secure software development practices.
- Operate mission-critical financial services with stringent uptime, security, compliance, and performance requirements.
- Mentor engineers and raise technical standards across the organization.
- Balance hands-on implementation with architectural leadership for long-term maintainability.
Requirements
- 9+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on backend development.
- 4+ years of hands-on Java experience, including Spring Core, Spring Web, Spring Boot, Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning, and performance work.
- Strong computer science fundamentals and experience designing scalable distributed systems.
- Deep experience building or operating financial systems such as payments, money movement, ledgers, settlements, reconciliation, billing, or banking infrastructure.
- Experience integrating with payment processors, settlement systems, card networks, and banking partners.
- Strong understanding of transactional systems, financial data consistency, idempotency, auditability, and fault tolerance.
- Hands-on experience with AWS, EKS, Aurora RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
- Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Git, and build automation.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog.
- Ability to write high-quality, testable, maintainable, and secure code.
- Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders and globally distributed teams.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and improving team standards and engineering practices.
Benefits
- Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage, company equity, a 401(k) with company match, unlimited paid time off, 13 company-paid holidays, parental leave, and a free Flex subscription.
- Full-time non-U.S. employees receive competitive compensation, company equity, and unlimited PTO.
- Roles posted in New York, San Francisco, and Salt Lake City are hybrid, with on-site expectations of 2–3 days per week.
- Candidates outside those areas may be eligible for relocation assistance.
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