Staff Software Engineer - Banking and Money Movement

The Impact You'll Have

• Lead the design and architecture of large-scale, complex systems and components, making decisions that impact both short-term and long-term product strategy.
• Take ownership of major technical initiatives, providing direction to teams while ensuring alignment with customer needs and business goals.
• Drive architectural improvements, optimizing for scalability, performance, and maintainability, while addressing both current and future system requirements.
• Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering an environment of growth, learning, and excellence across the team.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including product, design, and other engineering teams, to define and deliver high-impact solutions.
• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of the product, business needs, and user experience, ensuring that engineering decisions align with company goals.
• Independently drive the design and implementation of high-impact features and systems, ensuring high-quality deliverables with minimal supervision.
• Drive innovation and champion the adoption of best practices across the engineering team, while challenging the status quo to continuously improve processes.
• Be an advocate for software craftsmanship, ensuring code is clean, efficient, and aligned with the organization's architectural vision.
• Participate in setting the technical vision and long-term roadmap for your area of the product and ensure that the team is aligned with these goals.
• Participate in on-call coverage.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of experience in backend engineering, with a strong foundation in system design and architecture.
• 3+ Experience with payments or the FinTech space.
• Proven experience leading technical projects and teams, with the ability to make decisions that drive the overall success of the product.
• Deep expertise in one or more backend technologies (e.g., Java, Python), relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, Oracle, etc.), and significant experience with web services, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience working with large-scale, high-performance, and reliable systems.
• Ability to break down complex business problems into elegant, scalable technical solutions, working with multiple interacting components.
• A strong track record of designing, building, and scaling maintainable, robust systems.