Staff Backend Engineer

• Staff Backend engineer • 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on backend development in Python • Experience with modern data warehousing technologies (e.g., BigQuery, Analytics Hub) and has informed perspectives on their advantages, limitations, and how they fit into evolving data architectures. • High proficiency and strong skills in Cloud Technologies, object-oriented, and familiarity with AWS Lambda, Dynamo DB, GCP Dataflow, Pub-sub, Analytics Hub, and hands-on Typescript experience is a plus. Job Description Summary: What you need to know about the role: As a member of the engineering team, you will be responsible for the development and delivery of the applications and services that power the digital wallets ecosystem. You will work closely with product, design, and analytics teams to understand payments ecosystems that our software is enabling. We're looking for talented, motivated, and detail-oriented technologists with a passion for building robust systems at scale. We value collaboration, communication, and a passion for achieving engineering and product excellence. Job Description: Meet our team: We are a team of small and self-driven engineers & product managers to deliver innovative solutions to drive business impact, on a mission to empower consumers with Digital Wallets and enable commerce globally. Your way to impact: As Staff Software Engineer in the team, you will provide technical leadership for your development team and you will lead the team’s participation in all phases of our software development lifecycle through technical leadership, implementation of technical designs, direct contributions to architectural decisions, influencing the technical direction of our client-side applications and mentoring of junior engineers. You will be responsible for developing industry-leading experiences that bring unquestionable value to both merchants and buyers. You will use your years of technical expertise and a solid understanding of the business domain to help us improve the scale, reliability, and performance of our platforms. Your day-to-day: • Provide technical leadership and guidance to a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. • Demonstrate end-to-end ownership of features, projects, modules, and services that you and your team deliver in all phases of the software development lifecycle. • Lead your team’s design and implementation of end-to-end solutions towards new payment experiences using various technologies. • Lead architectural discussions and contribute to overall technical direction, advocating for best practices and innovative solutions. • Optimize software performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks via monitoring, logging, and metrics to enhance the user experience. • Act as a strong advocate for clean and scalable principles and practices in all areas, including coding, documentation, automation, etc. • Be a champion of high-performing, secure, and reliable software services • Identify critical non-functional requirements for the work your team prioritizes (Availability, Security, Performance, Scalability, and Observability), and implement them with your team. • Actively contribute improvements to our automated test strategies to enable speedy and reliable continuous integration. • Guide continuous improvements to our build and deploy processes. • Collaborate with other development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of client-side applications, automating and enhancing build, test, and deployment processes. • Collaborate and communicate effectively with all technical and non-technical partners and stakeholders (Architecture, Developer Experience, Product, Design, Analytics, Legal, Marketing, etc.) • Communicate frequently with your team to ensure shared understanding around the new products and features under consideration. • Conduct formal and informal code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members to ensure code quality and adherence to clean and scalable coding principles. • Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering their professional growth and promoting a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment. • Stay up-to-date with the latest industry standards, tools, and technologies related to Data Infrastructure development, and DevOps practices, and drive their adoption within the team. • Collaborate frequently with other developers and teams to design and implement cutting-edge reliable solutions • Understand and apply our technical architecture to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure deployments. • Enhance and maintain existing product capabilities as required. • Bring fresh ideas for continuously improving our software and your team. • Advocate for ways to avoid and remediate technical debt continuously. • Participate in program planning, influencing the product and technology roadmap and driving outcomes. What you need to bring: • 8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a strong emphasis on backend development in TypeScript and Java • Experience with modern data warehousing technologies (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Apache Iceberg) and has informed perspectives on their advantages, limitations, and how they fit into evolving data architectures. • High proficiency and strong skills in Cloud Technologies, object-oriented, and functional programming, and familiarity with AWS Lambda, Dynamo DB, and hands-on Typescript experience • Experience in building high-scale, high-throughput, low-latency systems. • Strong problem-solving skills, possessing the ability to work independently or collaboratively to analyze and address complex technical challenges. • Experience with modern software development practices, version control systems, and agile methodologies. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. • Strong attention to detail, as well as a passion for delivering high-quality software solutions. • Ability to mentor and up-level team members. • Proven track record of collaborating with teammates in non-technical roles, such as marketing, finance, and legal. Compensation $60-$65/hour