Staff Software Engineer - Backend

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll own the end-to-end delivery of large initiatives, from design to production readiness. You'll also support and consult with other engineers on their projects and mentor the team. You'll partner closely with engineering leadership, product managers, and technical program managers to develop roadmaps.

Responsibilities:

Design, scale, code, monitor, and maintain a highly critical set of services.

Contribute to, lead, own, and deliver multiple high-impact and complex projects or features.

Mentor and groom junior engineers.

Requirements:

MS/BS in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 8 years of individual contributor experience as a software engineer.

Fluent in one of Go, Java, or C++.

The ability to dive deep into a problem while also appreciating the challenge of understanding broader implications.

Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, including concepts like consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency, and performance/efficiency.

Proven ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to articulate complex ideas to various stakeholders.

Experience as a tech lead who has mentored or led small teams in building product features at scale.

Experience being on-call and handling operational issues for a large-scale distributed system.

Preferred Qualifications:

Prior experience in fintech or payments.

Prior experience with Go.

Experience with batch and/or streaming computation platforms.