Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

You will be responsible for defining and driving the multi quarter technical strategy for Payments spanning rails orchestration and transfers to support new products geos and significant growth in payment volume You will architect and evolve the core Payments platform rails integrations routing and funds flow services for high availability low latency and cost efficiency at global scale You will lead end to end design and rollout of large cross team initiatives such as new global rails decomp migrations resiliency programs breaking high ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes You will set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness across Payments including idempotency reconciliation failure mode handling and auditability for all money movement paths You will partner closely with FinHub Payments Risk Regulatory Platform and Product to design cohesive architectures that balance customer experience risk controls compliance and unit economics You will provide deep technical mentorship to senior staff engineers across Payments pods upleveling system design quality review rigor and long term maintainability You will use data and observability signals such as success rates latency cost and incident patterns to identify structural platform gaps and lead reliability and efficiency improvements You will represent Payments in executive and cross org forums clearly communicating tradeoffs aligning stakeholders on strategy and securing buy in for high impact technical bets

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the multi quarter technical strategy for Payments spanning rails orchestration and transfers to support new products geos and significant growth in payment volume
• Architect and evolve the core Payments platform (rails integrations routing and funds flow services) for high availability low latency and cost efficiency at global scale
• Lead end to end design and rollout of large cross team initiatives (e.g., new global rails decomp migrations resiliency programs) breaking high ambiguity into clear milestones and measurable outcomes
• Set and enforce technical standards for financial correctness across Payments including idempotency reconciliation failure mode handling and auditability for all money movement paths
• Partner closely with FinHub Payments Risk Regulatory Platform and Product to design cohesive architectures that balance customer experience risk controls compliance and unit economics
• Provide deep technical mentorship to senior staff engineers across Payments pods upleveling system design quality review rigor and long term maintainability
• Use data and observability signals (e.g., success rates latency cost incident patterns) to identify structural platform gaps and lead systematic reliability and efficiency improvements
• Represent Payments in executive and cross org forums clearly communicating tradeoffs aligning stakeholders on strategy and securing buy in for high impact technical bets

Requirements

• 10+ years building and operating large scale distributed systems in production
• Deep money movement architecture experience (PSPs ISO 20022 routing double entry high volume payment systems)
• Deep expertise in backend programming (Python Go Java) and cloud native architecture
• Proven track record designing highly available high performance systems
• Ability to anticipate scaling bottlenecks before they occur and take decisive proactive measures
• Experience leading cross functional technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers
• Commitment to technical excellence sharing best practices and fostering a strong engineering culture
• Ability to distill complex technical concepts into clear and actionable solutions
• Nice to have experience designing and operating ledgering or trading systems at large scale
• Strong financial acumen with experience handling accounting data and financial transactions with high precision and reliability
• Experience collaborating closely with finance and accounting teams

Benefits

• Equity
• Bonus eligibility
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan