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Staff Engineer - Payments (Mobile & Terminal Experiences)

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $235,000–$235,000🗓 2026-08-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect unified shopper journeys and drive technical direction for Terminal and Mobile payment experiences across devices, apps, and POS systems.

Role type

Staff Engineer (Mobile & Terminal Payments)

Builds

Next-generation payment experiences, SDKs, and distributed backend systems for mobile and point-of-sale.

Domain

Financial Technology / Payments

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Mobile architecture, SDK design, concurrency, performance optimization, large-scale distributed systems, cross-platform development, strategic technical planning, mentorship

Preferred skills

Cross-training on non-specialized mobile platforms, building flexible services for multiple products

Technologies

Android (Kotlin), iOS (Swift)

Responsibilities

Define long-term technical strategy for complex payment experiences, resolve challenging technical issues involving reliability and security, act as a strategic partner to translate business goals into executable plans, establish architectural boundaries and integration patterns, mentor engineers across levels, raise the bar for observability and testing

Seniority

Staff, hands-on technical leadership

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