The opportunity
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What you'll do
Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for the Payments: platform, defining the roadmap for scaling integrations, routing, and funds-flow systems across global markets.
Build and evolve distributed systems that process high-volume payment: traffic, designing for fault isolation, graceful degradation, observability, and clear SLOs for Tier-0/Tier-1 services.
Drive engineering quality by establishing paved roads, shared frameworks, and: coding standards that elevate the technical bar across the Payments team and adjacent orgs.
Partner cross-functionally with Product, Risk, Compliance, and Operations to: translate ambiguous business requirements into well-scoped technical solutions that balance speed, safety, and regulatory needs.
Lead high-stakes scaling and reliability initiatives, anticipating: bottlenecks before they occur and driving systematic improvements from incident postmortems.
Strengthen team capabilities through hands-on mentorship, design reviews, and: architectural guidance that accelerate the growth of engineers across the team.
What they're looking for
- + years of experience in software engineering, including hands-on experience: building payment systems, financial infrastructure, or high-volume transactional platforms.
- Demonstrated track record of architecting and delivering fault-tolerant,: highly reliable distributed systems at scale, with experience processing billions of dollars in transaction volume.
- Led platform-building efforts that transformed fragmented services into: coherent, reusable systems (e.g., shared frameworks, unified APIs, multi-tenant architectures).
- Proven experience owning production reliability, leading high-severity: incident response, and driving systemic improvements across multiple teams or domains.
