Senior Backend Product Software Engineer, Payments

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