Staff Engineer (Payments, AU)
Core
Design and build the payments platform moving money from customers to venues across Australia, the UK, and New Zealand, ensuring reliability, risk, and compliance.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Payments)
Builds
Payment flows, ledgers, settlement systems, and integration patterns for banks and card schemes.
Domain
Fintech / Payments / Hospitality
Required skills
Card payments expertise, ledger and settlement design, PCI DSS compliance, incident response, backend engineering on cloud, mentoring, AI tool fluency, idempotency handling.
Preferred skills
Card issuing experience, high-growth fintech scaling, Australian/UK/NZ payments landscape, serverless AWS, fraud/risk platforms, live financial system migration.
Technologies
AWS, serverless, event-driven systems, card schemes, acquirers.
Responsibilities
Lead design of complex payment problems, represent the squad with payment partners and banks, strengthen reliability and compliance posture, write production code for consequential changes, mentor engineers, shape payments strategy.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on technical leadership
