Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer | Series B Payments Company (Remote)

Location: Remote (US)

Compensation: $250,000 base (total comp + equity)

Seniority: Staff (Individual Contributor / Tech Lead)

About us 🚀

We’re a fast-growing Series B payments startup building the next-generation platform that powers seamless payments and settlements for digital-first businesses. We're solving hard problems in fraud detection, real-time settlement, and scale and we move fast. If you like shipping high-impact systems, thrive in ambiguity, and want to shape product + architecture at a critical growth stage, come join us.

What you’ll do ✅

• Design, build, and own core backend services in Python that handle high-throughput payment flows and settlement pipelines.
• Lead architecture and technical direction for critical systems (payments routing, reconciliation, risk/fraud signals, event-driven processing).
• Ship production-quality code and mentor other engineers; set standards for reliability, observability, and performance.
• Collaborate with product, compliance, and operations to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
• Drive initiatives across the stack: API design, data models, DB schema, distributed job processing, and monitoring/alerting.
• Evaluate trade-offs, run experiments, and iterate quickly while maintaining security and compliance best practices for payments.

What we’re looking for 🧩

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong Python expertise: writing production services, libraries, and tests.
• Fintech / payments experience is required: you’ve worked on payment rails, card processing, ACH, settlement/reconciliation, or financial risk systems.
• Proven experience building scalable, distributed systems (message queues, stream processing, worker fleets, caching, relational + analytical databases).
• Solid system design skills and experience owning end-to-end features in production.
• Familiarity with security, PCI considerations, and compliance constraints a plus.
• Startup experience is a plus - comfortable shipping with small teams, ambiguous scope, and high ownership.
• Effective communicator and mentor; able to influence across teams.

Nice-to-haves 🤝

• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, Pulsar), Celery/RQ, or similar.
• Background in risk/fraud models, real-time scoring, or payments reconciliation.
• AWS/GCP production experience (Lambda, ECS/EKS, RDS, BigQuery, etc.).
• Interest or experience with ML pipelines or data engineering supporting payments analytics.

What we offer 🌟

• Competitive $250,000 base (market-competitive equity package & bonus potential).
• Fully remote, flexible hours, and a small, mission-driven team.
• Generous PTO, health/dental/vision benefits, and professional development allowance.
• The chance to influence product direction at a high-growth company - big impact, visible results.