Staff Software Engineer, Finance Technology

What You'll Do

• Own the architecture for the Finance Technology platform, which includes pay-ins, payouts, invoicing, and tax calculation. Make the architectural calls to unlock the next several years of scale.
• Define clear, well-versioned APIs and contracts for how Finance Technology services are consumed across all channels.
• Lead multi-quarter initiatives end-to-end: shape the problem with Product, design the system, break the work down, and deliver alongside the team while staying hands-on in the code.
• Maintain a perspective on the evolving financial technology landscape and lead the technical evaluation of finance technology providers, e.g. payment service providers.
• Be a leader in Finance Technology’s continued innovation and experimentation on our AI-native SDLC.
• Partner with senior technical leaders across ezCater to align on shared pattern and standards.
• Lead through collaborative design: whiteboarding, technical discussions, and aligning teams around clear architectural decisions.
• Partner with Platform Engineering on shared service patterns, Temporal, observability, secrets, and CI/CD.
• Act as a technical multiplier through design reviews, code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
• Be part of an on-call rotation that we work to make as uneventful as possible, and lead the team in triaging and investigating customer-impacting production issues.

What You Have

• 8+ years of professional development experience, with a focus on backend technologies and building services using Go, Ruby on Rails, Java or similar languages.
• Demonstrated success as the technical lead on multi-quarter, multi-team initiatives — owning the architecture, sequencing the work, and shipping the outcome.
• Deep experience designing, building, and scaling payment-processing and payout systems (e.g., credit card processing, invoicing, refunds, restaurant partner disbursements, tax calculation/reconciliation) in high-volume, customer-facing products.
• Hands-on experience integrating with modern payment service providers and gateways (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, card networks), with a strong understanding of payment lifecycles, settlement, chargebacks, and regulatory/compliance considerations (such as PCI and SCA).
• Experience with workflow orchestration technologies such as Temporal.
• A quality mindset: security best practices, automated testing, clean code, code reviews, and CI/CD principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication around collaborative system design and technical decision-making.
• Practical experience using feature flags, telemetry, and safe rollout techniques to ship incrementally and de-risk changes.
• Experience triaging and investigating customer-impacting, production issues.
• Track record collaborating with Product and Design to turn ambiguous problems into iterative deliveries and measurable outcomes.
• Eagerness to give and receive feedback in a collaborative learning environment.
• Friendly, flexible and pragmatic approach to work.
• Ability to travel up to 5 days per quarter for Together Weeks, team gatherings and other events, when applicable.