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Payments Engineer

San Francisco💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-09-26

Core

Building deterministic, observable, and resilient financial infrastructure to scale payout, settlement, and reconciliation systems for a high-volume AI marketplace.

Role type

Senior backend engineer (payments infrastructure)

Builds

Immutable operational ledgers, settlement ingestion pipelines, and automated payout orchestration systems

Domain

Fintech / Payments infrastructure / High-scale distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Backend platform engineering, Payment gateway integration (Stripe, Adyen), Transactional databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Compiled languages (Go, Rust, C++), Message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS), Distributed systems frameworks (Temporal, Kubernetes), Reliability engineering, Financial compliance (PCI-DSS)

Preferred skills

Experience in high-stakes domains (fintech, billing), System-level thinking, Root-cause analysis

Technologies

Stripe, Adyen, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Go, Rust, C++, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Temporal, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Automate payout orchestration workflows, Design and build real operational ledgers, Build settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines, Improve observability across payment processor flows, Eliminate recurring payment bugs at the root cause, Reduce manual treasury overhead

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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