Sony - Staff Software Engineer - Payment Domain

Overview

: Java Lead - Staff Engineer (10-12)

Mandatory Skills : Java, Spring Boot, Microservices, AWS, Kafka

Job Description

Role Overview :

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for large-scale, mission-critical services in the Payments domain. This role is responsible for architectural ownership across teams, driving long-term technical vision, and ensuring platform scalability, resilience, and engineering excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Architecture :

• Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture of high-scale, distributed payment services
• Lead the design and adoption of event-driven architectures using Kafka across multiple teams
• Define, standardize, and govern API design and lifecycle using API Gateway
• Drive architectural decisions with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, security, and Act as the technical authority for service design, trade-offs, and long-term platform evolution
  
  

• Own service health, SLIs/SLOs, and operational readiness across owned domains
• Lead complex cross-team initiatives, resolving systemic technical challenges
• Establish and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices
• Lead design reviews and provide guidance on complex system design problems
  
  

• Mentor and coach senior, mid-level, and junior engineers
• Raise the technical bar across teams through design guidance, reviews, and knowledge Partner with Product, Engineering Managers, and Leadership on roadmaps and technical Skills & Experience :
• 10+ years of experience designing, building, and owning production-grade distributed systems
• Deep expertise in Java (11+), Spring Boot, and RESTful API design
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka in high-throughput, event-driven systems
• Proven experience defining and managing APIs using API Gateway
• Strong experience with AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, S3)
• Demonstrated ownership of high-volume, highly available systems
• Advanced skills in system design, debugging, performance tuning, and failure analysis
• Proven ability to drive complex initiatives independently and influence across teams
  
  

• Experience in Payments / FinTech platforms
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation
• Knowledge of caching strategies, data modeling, and large-scale optimization
• Exposure to platform engineering or shared services architectures
  
  

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