Staff Software Engineer, Finance Technology
Staff engineer responsible for architecture and delivery of a high-volume finance technology platform covering payments, payouts, invoicing, and taxes. The role requires 8+ years of backend experience, deep payment systems expertise, strong Go skills, and technical leadership across teams.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture for the Finance Technology platform, including pay-ins, payouts, invoicing, and tax calculation.
- Define versioned APIs and service contracts consumed across channels.
- Lead multi-quarter, multi-team initiatives from problem definition and system design through delivery while remaining hands-on in code.
- Own technical health by defining engineering quality standards and tracking operational metrics.
- Evaluate finance technology providers, including payment service providers, through technical spikes and prototypes.
- Drive innovation and experimentation in an AI-native software development lifecycle.
- Align engineering, product, and other senior leaders on shared patterns and standards.
- Lead collaborative design sessions and architectural decision-making.
- Partner with Platform Engineering on shared services, Temporal, observability, secrets, and CI/CD.
- Provide design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead investigation of customer-impacting production issues.
Requirements
- 8+ years building backend services.
- 4+ years of experience with Go.
- Experience leading multi-quarter, multi-team initiatives as a technical lead, including architecture, sequencing, and delivery.
- Deep experience with payment processing and payout systems, including card processing, invoicing, refunds, disbursements, and tax.
- Hands-on integration with payment service providers and gateways such as Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, and card networks.
- Understanding of settlement, chargebacks, PCI, and SCA.
- Experience building and scaling high-integrity systems such as payments, ledgers, billing, or other critical distributed systems.
- Strong API and service-boundary design skills.
- Commitment to security, automated testing, clean code, CI/CD, feature flags, telemetry, and safe incremental rollouts.
- Clear written and verbal communication of system designs and technical tradeoffs.
- Demonstrated use of AI tools to improve the software development lifecycle without sacrificing rigor.
Nice-to-haves
- Workflow orchestration experience, such as Temporal.
- Experience with card issuance or ledgering.
Compensation
- National total target cash compensation, including base salary and bonus target: $184,000–$232,000 annually.
- Additional compensation and benefits may include equity, 401(k) match, health, dental, vision, flexible PTO, paid holidays, and family planning and mental health resources.
Skills
Go, Backend Services, Payment Processing, Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, API Design, Distributed Systems, PCI, Sca, Temporal, CI/CD, Observability, Automated Testing, AI Tools
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