Staff Software Engineer - Payments
Leads architecture and development of globally scaled tax remittance and payment systems spanning multiple currencies, countries, and tax agencies. Requires 9+ years of software engineering experience, strong backend and distributed-systems expertise, and experience leading architecture.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and development: Design and evolve the core tax remittance product moving $30B+ across 40+ countries and 5,000+ tax agencies, with reliability and correctness as first principles.
- Own tax remittance pipelines: Architect and build end-to-end pipelines orchestrating tax payments from salary payout through agency remittance and refunds, ensuring payments are timely, accurate, auditable, and compliant.
- Scale distributed payment systems: Develop and optimize distributed systems handling high-throughput, multi-currency tax remittances, agency cutoffs, retries, reconciliation, and failure recovery at global scale.
- Drive technical excellence: Establish high standards for reliability, observability, security, and regulatory and audit readiness.
- Collaborate across teams and externally: Partner with Payroll, Banking, Finance Operations, Compliance, external payment partners, and tax agencies to define roadmaps, de-risk launches, and expand into new geographies and products.
- Mentor and influence: Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the organization, influencing architecture, design reviews, and operational practices.
Requirements
- 9+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years leading architecture, designing consumer-facing products, and building systems.
- Strong proficiency in backend development, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with data processing frameworks.
- Deep knowledge of building and scaling real-time, high-throughput systems.
- Experience developing consumer-grade applications with a focus on intuitive user experiences.
- Strong analytical and debugging skills.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts effectively to engineering and non-engineering audiences.
Skills
Backend Development, Distributed Systems, Data Pipelines, Data Processing Frameworks, Real-Time Systems, Payment Systems, Multi-Currency Systems, Reconciliation, Observability, Security
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