Staff Engineer

About Payoneer

Founded in 2005 Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders with a mission to connect the worlds underserved businesses to a rising global economy. Were a community with over 2500 colleagues all over the world working to serve customers and partners in over 190 countries and territories.

By taking the complexity out of the financial workflowsincluding everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management to providing working capital and business intelligencewe give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.

Staff Engineer

• Rolesummary

  Israel
  Hybrid
  Full-time

  The Modernization Team mandate is to identify and solve the deepest most systemic architectural challenges in the platform problems that are too strategic and cross-cutting for any single product team to own yet too impactful to leave unresolved.

  We are not a feature team. We do not own a single service or product surface. Instead we operate as a platform-level force multiplier: we take on the hardest problems build shared solutions and tooling and enable every product team at Payoneer to move faster and more safely.

  This is a brand-new team being built from the ground up. You will have an outsized opportunity to shape how we work what we prioritize and the engineering culture we create together.

  What youll do

  As a Staff Software Engineer on the Modernization Team you will tackle the deepest most systemic architectural challenges in Payoneers platform owning end-to-end migrations building shared infrastructure and creating the tooling that enables every product team to move faster and more safely.

  The Modernization Team operates with a native agentic mindset this is not an add-on or an experiment; it is core to how we build. We apply AI-assisted development across every phase of our work: automated code generation AI-driven migration scripts intelligent test generation code review and documentation. Our goal is not just to write code faster it is to build tooling that multiplies the output of every engineer working on modernization challenges.

  Who You Are

  • 6 years of experience inbackend engineeringin experience.
  • Solidexperience andunderstanding of distributed systems: messaging caching microservice communication patterns and failure modes.
  • Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure comfortable with the ecosystem even if not expert level in every service.
  • Ability to own complex technical work end to end from design through production.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot Claude Cursor or equivalent) as a day-to-day engineering practice not a nice-to-have.
  • Proven track record of driving architectural decisions with cross-team impact you have moved systems forward not just improved them incrementally.
  • Experience with large-scale migration programs: decomposing monoliths rearchitecting data layers or migrating messaging infrastructure in production environments.
  • Strong communication skills; comfortable working across team boundaries.

  Nice to have:

  • .NET background especially if you have migrated services to a modern stack.
  • Experience building or operating shared platform infrastructure consumed by multiple teams.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architecture patterns: outbox pattern saga pattern.
  
  
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