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Backend Engineer, Payments and Risk

USA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.

Role type

Senior backend engineer (payments and risk)

Builds

APIs for processing payments, regional/non-card payment options, and in-person payment capabilities

Domain

Fintech / Payments infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Large-scale system design, API development, debugging critical production issues, mentoring engineers, cross-functional collaboration

Preferred skills

Financial tracking systems, cloud-based services (gRPC, GraphQL, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS)

Technologies

gRPC, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS

Responsibilities

Design and maintain large-scale payment APIs; Debug and solve critical production issues; Mentor engineers; Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build new features

Seniority

Mid-level to Senior, hands-on IC

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