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Staff Backend Engineer, Payments Platform

San Francisco, USA·Engineering

GoPostgreSQLKafkagRPCAWSDistributed Systems

About the role

Join our Payments Platform team as a Staff Backend Engineer driving the systems that move billions in transactions for Acme customers worldwide. You will set technical direction and mentor a high-leverage team.

What you'll do

  • Design and own ledgering, settlement, and reconciliation services at scale
  • Lead architecture reviews and raise the bar on reliability and correctness
  • Partner with product and risk to ship new payment methods globally
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers across the org

Requirements

  • 8+ years building backend services, with deep distributed systems experience
  • Strong Go or similar systems language and production PostgreSQL expertise
  • Track record owning mission-critical, high-throughput services

Nice to have

  • Experience with money movement, double-entry ledgers, or fintech
  • Familiarity with event streaming via Kafka

Benefits

  • Top-of-band compensation with meaningful equity
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Annual learning budget and conference travel