Staff Software Engineer

Overview

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and ownership of complex, high-scale services while driving engineering excellence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and own high-scale, distributed services
• Lead the design of event-driven architectures using Kafka
• Define and govern API standards using API Gateway
• Drive service design with focus on scalability, resilience, and performance
• Own technical decisions and service health metrics
• Lead code reviews and enforce engineering best practices
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Collaborate with Product and leadership on roadmap and architecture
• Payment Domain
  
  

• 8+ years of experience building and owning production-grade services
• Deep expertise in Java 11+, Spring Boot, and REST API design
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka in high-throughput environments
• Proven experience designing and managing APIs via API Gateway
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (DynamoDB, EKS, SQS, Lambda, S3)
• Proven experience with high-volume, distributed systems
• Advanced system design, debugging, and performance optimization skills
• Ability to drive complex initiatives independently
  
  

• Experience in the Payments or FinTech domain
• Strong experience with CI/CD and release automation
• Knowledge of caching, data modeling, and optimization strategies