Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Order Platform)

About Our Client

The organization operates in the financial technology sector, reinventing credit through transparent and flexible buy now, pay later solutions without hidden fees or compounding interest. Its platform simplifies purchasing by enabling reliable transactions between merchants and consumers at scale while improving access to flexible payment options.

About the Opportunity

The Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Order Platform) leads the development and technical strategy for systems supporting post-checkout processes such as orders, captures, refunds, and settlements. This role is critical to maintaining the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the platform that supports merchant and consumer transactions.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the team's technical strategy over a yearly planning horizon.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Analytics, and other cross-functional teams to manage technical risks, trade-offs, and priorities.
• Advocate for technical solutions and operational processes that improve engineering productivity and system quality.
• Own team operations and service availability through monitoring, incident triage, on-call rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting.
• Establish and promote code review, design, and engineering standards that reinforce quality and ownership.
• Mentor and develop engineers through ongoing feedback, technical guidance, and career development support.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching scalable backend systems using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
• Proven experience building highly available distributed systems using technologies such as AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• Strong analytical and system design skills, including the ability to define clear API boundaries and build reliable services for payments, commerce, ledger, or other financially sensitive domains.
• Experience delivering major features or system changes through structured technical planning and execution.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous environments and understand system architecture from low-level implementation details through large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated ability to drive engineering impact and growth through feedback and collaboration with technical and cross-functional peers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for collaboration across a global engineering organization.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Pay and Compensation

• USA base pay range for California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut: $230,000–$290,000 per year.
• USA base pay range for all other U.S. states: $204,000–$264,000 per year.
• Compensation may include base pay, equity rewards, monthly health, wellness, and technology stipends, and fully subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage.