# Staff Software Engineer, Finance Technology

**Company:** [ezCater](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ezcater)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $184k – $232k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Go, Ruby on Rails, Java, Temporal, Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, Pci Compliance, Sca Compliance, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-06-23

> Staff Engineer leading architecture and multi-quarter initiatives for ezCater's Finance Technology platform, focusing on payment processing, payouts, invoicing, and tax systems. Requires 8+ years backend experience and deep expertise in payment systems and providers.

## Job Description

## 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.

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