Staff Software Engineer - Financial Integrity
Leads architecture and hands-on development of scalable, reliable, and compliant financial integrity systems. The role requires 8+ years of software engineering experience, distributed-systems expertise, and the ability to drive complex initiatives and mentor engineers through influence.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve systems powering Financial Integrity, ensuring financial transactions are accurate, reliable, secure, compliant, and auditable.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across design, implementation, code reviews, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Define the team’s long-term technical vision and roadmap with product, engineering, operations, risk, and compliance leaders.
- Design and build scalable distributed systems supporting high transaction volumes, automated controls, and failure recovery.
- Improve correctness, observability, security, operational excellence, and regulatory readiness.
- Lead complex cross-functional initiatives from technical exploration through delivery, managing risks and ambiguity.
- Develop automation that improves operational efficiency and reduces manual intervention.
- Mentor engineers and influence technical decisions through architecture reviews, design guidance, and engineering practices.
- Foster ownership, high standards, and measurable customer and business impact.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant responsibility for architecture and complex cross-team initiatives.
- Deep hands-on experience building backend platforms, distributed systems, and high-throughput data or transaction-processing pipelines.
- Experience designing systems where correctness, reliability, security, auditability, and regulatory compliance are critical.
- Proven ability to design scalable systems, make architectural trade-offs, and establish long-term technical direction.
- Ability to lead through influence, raise engineering standards, guide design and code reviews, and mentor engineers without direct management responsibility.
- Track record of translating technical vision into milestones, managing risks and dependencies, and delivering complex initiatives.
- Ability to collaborate with product, engineering, finance, operations, risk, and compliance stakeholders across regions and time zones.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts, architectural decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with payments, ledgers, risk, or compliance systems.
Skills
Backend Platforms, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Transaction Processing, System Architecture, Scalability, Observability, Security, Regulatory Compliance, Payments, Ledgers, Risk Systems, Code Reviews, Production Operations, Failure Recovery
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