Payments Engineer

Highlights

• Build deterministic payout and settlement infrastructure at massive scale.
• Create immutable, auditable ledger with end-to-end observability for payouts.
• Eliminate manual treasury work by automating reconciliation pipelines.

What they offer

• Bi-annual performance bonus
• Equity grant vested over 4 years
• Up to $15k relocation bonus
• $10K housing bonus near office
• $1.5K monthly meals stipend
• Free Equinox membership
• $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
• $200 monthly wellness reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance

Ideal candidate

Senior backend engineer with an operational, systems-level mindset who thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and cares deeply about correctness, reliability, and automating financial infrastructure.

Requirements

• 6+ years building scalable backend systems, ideally in payments, fintech, billing or financial infrastructure
• 3+ years owning production backend/platform systems
• Experience integrating and managing third-party payment gateways and banking APIs
• Understanding of PCI-DSS and secure handling of sensitive banking and customer data
• Experience with transactional databases, compiled languages, message queues and distributed systems
• Proven ability to operate production systems under significant load with strong observability
• Comfortable with high intensity in fast-growing, ambiguous environments