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Staff Software Engineer - Java/AWS

San Francisco💼 Full-time💰 $174,000–$174,000🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-25

Core

Drive technical strategy, architecture, and implementation for complex distributed systems and SaaS solutions in the payments domain.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer (Java/AWS)

Builds

Production-grade payment processing systems and cloud infrastructure

Domain

Financial Services / Payments / Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Java, Spring, distributed systems, microservices, AWS, event-driven architecture, Kafka, RabbitMQ, CI/CD, system design

Preferred skills

Advanced Java/Spring Boot, AWS-based architecture, hands-on system design, technical leadership, mentoring

Technologies

Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Maven, Gradle, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Kafka, RabbitMQ

Responsibilities

Build technical strategy for complex requirements, drive technical architecture and design, lead functional areas and guide team members, collaborate with product managers and designers, own features and define long-term system health, improve engineering standards and tooling, assist in resolving production issues

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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