Staff Software Engineer, Payments

About the role

The Payments team works with core services and other product engineering teams across the Turo ecosystem to build-out new product capabilities and enhance the scalability, performance & reliability of the services that power the Turo car rental marketplace. As Staff Software Engineer on the Payments team, you’ll work with a team of talented software engineers to design & build both new capabilities as well as migrating existing payment & billing related services, embedded in a monolith, to a new microservices architecture designed for scale on the cloud.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product engineering, core services and platform teams to develop Turo into a set of distributed scalable microservices
• Drive the decomposition of our legacy monolith to extract the payment and billing functions into independently deployable services
• Alongside your teammates, you’ll own and evolve critical building blocks such as Billing, Invoicing and Payments for Turo’s growing marketplace
• Generate maintainable, high-quality code, conduct thorough testing, engage in collaborative code reviews, and oversee the code deployment process
• Identify opportunities for enhancing our architecture & application design of Turo
• Create tools & utilities for diagnosing & resolving issues within Turo’s eco-system
• Operate effectively in a dynamic and expanding environment, adapting to constant change, where fluid processes and creative solutions are valued
• Apply your skills to elevate the technical standards and provide guidance on architectural decisions

Requirements

• 8-10+ years experience shipping high-scale code to production
• Fluent in at least one language - e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C++
• Possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, database concepts, distributed systems, and search
• Strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
• Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals
• Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting systems and tools
• Keen interest in search, streaming, database or other backend technologies

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
• Experience in building & scaling Payments & Billing systems
• Passion for developing FinTech solutions for a growing start-up!

Benefits

Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees

Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)

Retailer match

Turo host matching program

Turo travel credit

Cell phone and internet stipend

Paid time off to relax and recharge

Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave

For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities