Staff Backend Engineer, Issuing Platform

Attributes We Value: We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

Who you are: We are looking for senior engineers with deep technical expertise and a strong track record of impact as an individual contributor.

Minimum qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with sustained impact as a senior or staff-level individual contributor.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong proficiency in backend development using languages such as Java, Kotlin, Go, or Python.
• Deep experience designing and delivering large-scale, distributed systems in production.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and solid understanding of object-oriented design.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven and streaming architectures, for example Kafka.
• Proven experience designing and operating RESTful APIs at scale.
• Experience with domain-driven design and event-driven architectures.
• Cloud experience with GCP (preferred) or AWS, including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Splunk, Grafana, and Prometheus.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction through design and execution rather than authority.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in fintech, payments, or other regulated financial domains.
• Deep experience with JVM-based ecosystems, including Java or Kotlin with Spring or Spring Boot.