Senior Software Engineer

About

We are on a mission to revolutionize B2B payments. We’re a well-funded, early-stage startup operating in stealth mode, building cutting-edge solutions that will transform the way businesses move money. If you’re excited about tackling big problems from the ground up, we want to hear from you. As we grow, we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team and help build the core infrastructure that powers our payment solutions. You’ll work on challenging technical problems while contributing to the foundation of our technology stack.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Development: Design and implement core platform services, APIs, and infrastructure that support our banking integrations and payment processing systems.
• Integration Engineering: Build and maintain secure, scalable integrations with major financial institutions and payment networks.
• Code Quality & Best Practices: Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code while contributing to architectural decisions and technical standards.
• System Reliability: Ensure high availability and performance of platform services, implementing monitoring, alerting, and error handling best practices.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, QA, and other Engineering teams to deliver features that meet business requirements and user needs.
• Technical Innovation: Identify opportunities to improve system performance, developer experience, and engineering processes. Drive improvements to internal tooling, contribute to shared infrastructure and company libraries, and help evolve our technical architecture.

Qualifications

• Experience: 5+ years in software engineering, with demonstrated experience building scalable backend systems and APIs and leading projects.
• Commercial Payments Knowledge: Understanding of commercial banking, payments processing, or fintech systems. Experience with financial data handling and compliance requirements preferred.
• Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in Java, Spring framework, and containerization technologies like Kubernetes. Experience with microservices architecture and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• System Design: Experience designing and implementing distributed systems, with knowledge of database design, caching strategies, and message queues.
• Security-First Mindset: Understanding of security best practices, especially in financial services contexts, including data encryption, secure API design, and compliance requirements.
• AI Tooling Proficiency: Strong proficiency with modern AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) and a proven ability to leverage them to enhance engineering speed, quality, and impact.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to debug complex issues, optimize performance, and architect solutions for high-scale systems.
• Communication & Collaboration: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with real-time payment systems or high-frequency transaction processing.
• Knowledge of banking APIs, SWIFT messaging, or ACH processing.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and stream processing.
• Familiarity with enterprise DevOps practices and infrastructure as code.