Staff Engineer, Payments
Core
Set technical direction and lead architectural evolution for next-generation payment offerings in India, building on foundational platforms to process money movement with low-latency and high reliability.
Role type
Staff Engineer (Payments Infrastructure)
Builds
Next-generation payment offerings, payment routing, reconciliation, and settlement systems for the Indian market.
Domain
Financial Technology / Payments
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, System design, API development, Database management, Low-latency execution, Transactional correctness, Idempotency, Safe migrations, Resilient distributed-state management, Hands-on coding, Technical leadership, Incident response, Engineering standards, Mentorship
Preferred skills
Payments or fintech industry experience, Cross-functional leadership across timezones, Ruby, Java, or Go proficiency, Relational and document databases
Technologies
Ruby, Java, Go, Relational databases, Document databases
Responsibilities
Design and operate secure, reliable, extensible production systems; Drive complex initiatives from concept to launch; Set high technical bar through hands-on coding and design; Partner with cross-functional teams to navigate regulatory complexity; Own operational excellence and incident response; Improve engineering standards and tooling; Mentor and develop engineers.
Seniority
Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence