Staff Software Engineer, Banking

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy for critical Banking initiatives, balancing long-term architecture with near-term delivery needs across multiple teams.
• Drive the design and evolution of reliable, scalable systems for money movement, bank account experiences, payment orchestration, and related financial infrastructure.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and accounting to turn complex business and regulatory requirements into durable technical solutions.
• Identify and resolve systemic reliability, quality, and operability issues, improving observability, incident prevention, and engineering standards over time.
• Provide technical leadership across teams by driving architecture reviews, aligning stakeholders, and helping teams make strong tradeoffs in ambiguous spaces.
• Mentor senior engineers and emerging technical leaders, helping raise the bar on system design, execution, and technical ownership within the Banking org.
• Contribute directly when needed — whether through design, debugging, rollout strategy, or implementation — especially for high-stakes initiatives and critical path decisions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including experience operating as a senior technical leader on complex, multi-team initiatives
• Demonstrated track record of leading architecture and delivery for large-scale distributed systems in a product or platform engineering environment
• Strong systems thinking and the ability to simplify complex technical and organizational problems into clear, actionable plans
• Experience improving reliability, operational excellence, and engineering quality in production systems with meaningful customer or business impact
• Able to work effectively across engineering, product, design, operations, compliance, risk, and other cross-functional partners
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and align teams without direct authority
• Hands-on technical depth and sound engineering judgment, including the ability to dive into implementation details when needed
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and helping scale technical leadership across an organization

Bonus Points

• Experience in fintech, banking, payments, ledgering, or money movement systems
• Experience building systems in highly regulated environments
• Experience leading large migrations, platform consolidations, or service modernization efforts
• Experience working with external financial or infrastructure partners and integrating third-party systems into critical product flows
• Experience defining technical strategy for org-level investments that span product, platform, and operational workflows