Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Merchant & Partner Lifecycle)

- Design & expand the backbone of our platform to scale to hundreds of thousands of merchants from all around the world

- Design and align the scope of work with other teams to deliver cross-team projects

- Mentor other engineers to ensure their development & growth

- Partner with Engineering Manager and Team Lead to drive and execute the long-term vision of the team

- Execute technical strategy for broad or complex requirements with insightful and forward-looking approaches that go beyond the direct team and solve large open-ended problems

- Utilize agentic development tools like Claude Code to automate parts of the development process

- Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes throughout the organization

- A strong understanding of Domain-Driven Design, distributed systems, and how architectural decisions affect performance and maintainability

- Proficiency with data models, API design (http and RPC), state machines, event-driven architecture, and database design

- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Must be proficient in asynchronous communication-written tech specs, ADRs, project plans, etc.

- Experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems (our stack: AWS, gRPC, Snowflake, Kotlin, Python, MySQL, Kubernetes). Java and Kotlin experience are especially helpful.

- Prior experience with monitoring and alerting systems ( sentry.io , rollbar, chronosphere, kibana)

USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: 195,000 - 255,000

USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: 173,000 - 233,000