Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Money Team in United States at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, Money Team based in the United States.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced backend engineering leader to shape the architecture of mission-critical financial infrastructure powering large-scale payment and money movement systems. In this role, you will influence technical strategy while remaining hands-on in designing and building highly reliable backend services. Working alongside cross-functional teams including Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering, you will deliver secure, scalable, and compliant financial solutions. The position offers the chance to solve complex distributed systems challenges, mentor talented engineers, and drive engineering excellence across the organization. If you are passionate about backend architecture, financial platforms, and building resilient systems that directly impact customers and business growth, this role offers meaningful technical ownership and long-term impact.

• Design, develop, and scale backend services and APIs supporting payment processing, billing, subscriptions, settlements, reconciliation, ledger management, and money movement platforms.
• Lead the architecture and evolution of highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems capable of processing high-value financial transactions with accuracy, reliability, and auditability.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams, establishing long-term platform strategy and promoting best practices in system design, security, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
• Drive complex initiatives from technical planning through implementation, deployment, and production support while balancing immediate business needs with long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and engineering stakeholders to deliver secure, compliant, and scalable financial capabilities.
• Build and maintain integrations with external payment providers, banking partners, and financial service platforms.
• Mentor engineers, foster technical excellence, and contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes, service architecture, and engineering standards.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on backend development and distributed systems.
• At least 4 years of hands-on Java experience, including Spring Framework (Core, Web, Boot), Gradle, JUnit, JVM tuning, and performance optimization.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and proven experience designing scalable, resilient, and high-performance backend architectures.
• Extensive experience building or operating financial platforms involving payments, ledgers, settlements, reconciliation, billing, banking infrastructure, or money movement.
• Solid understanding of transactional integrity, financial data consistency, idempotency, auditability, and fault tolerance in distributed environments.
• Experience integrating with payment processors, banking partners, settlement systems, and card networks.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services such as EKS, Aurora RDS, ElastiCache, DynamoDB, along with Docker, Kubernetes, relational databases, and NoSQL technologies.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, automated testing, monitoring tools such as Datadog, and modern DevOps practices.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to work effectively across globally distributed teams.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence through leadership and best engineering practices.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary ranging from $170,000–$250,000 USD, depending on experience and geographic location.
• Company equity program.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance for eligible U.S. employees.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching.
• Unlimited paid time off plus 13 paid company holidays.
• Paid parental leave.
• Complimentary subscription to the company's core service.
• Hybrid work opportunities in select locations with relocation assistance available for eligible employees.
• Inclusive, collaborative, and globally distributed engineering environment focused on innovation, ownership, and professional growth.