Staff Software Engineer, Backend - Payments

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Requirements:

• You have at least 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• You’ve designed, built, scaled and maintained production services, and know how to compose a service oriented architecture.
• You write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers.
• You’re passionate about building an open financial system that brings the world together.
• You possess strong technical skills for system design and coding.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a bias toward open, transparent cultural practices.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and develop platform for the payments org.
• Provide technical structure to teams and work closely with management and stakeholders to define strategic roadmaps.
• Build new services to meet critical product and business needs using Golang / Java.
• Design scalable systems to solve novel problems with modern cloud technology and industry best practices.
• Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.
• Work with engineers, designers, product managers and senior leadership to turn our product and technical vision into a tangible roadmap every quarter.
• Write high quality, well tested code to meet the needs of your customers. Debugging extremely difficult technical problems, and making systems and products both work better and are easier to deploy, own, operate and diagnose.
• Review all feature designs within your product area and across the company for cross-cutting projects. Be an owner of the security, safety, scale, operational integrity, and architectural clarity of these designs.