Senior Backend Product Software Engineer, Payments

Role Description

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional partners (Billing, Financial Data Engineering, etc.) to deliver reliable payments functionality.
• Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering financial transactions.
• Work with metrics and logging systems to ensure visibility and observability of the payment infrastructure.
• Acts as a technical lead across projects and teams.
• Sets long-term technical direction and ensures engineering excellence.
• Drives cross-team collaboration and mentors engineers.
• Develops intuitive product instincts and uses data to shape technical and product strategy.

On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues, with the goal of maintaining a stable and high-quality experience for our customers.

Requirements

• 9+ years of experience in software engineering or related industry roles.
• Professional experience in backend engineering, preferably with large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in any backend programming language (we’re using Python in Payments, but being language agnostic we know the language is mainly the tool). 
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, transactions, and service reliability.
• Strong communication skills, particularly when working across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payment systems or financial transaction infrastructure.
• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus).
• Passion for fostering technical growth within teams 
• Experience with platforms like Databricks for data engineering and analytics is a plus.

Compensation