Staff Engineer, Product and Platform
Staff Engineer, Product and Platform
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23-07-2025
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Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight parents can automate allowance manage chores set flexible spend controls and invest for their familys future. Kids and teens learn to earn save spend wisely and invest.
At Greenlight we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. Its no small task and thats why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better brighter future for the next generation depends on it.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our Product and Platform Engineering group(Payments team) and play a key role in shaping the future of our platform. In this role you will help build resilient and scalable systems that power a high-volume payments infrastructure operating at high availability and delivering sub-second latency at scale.
You will work alongside high performing teams to modernize critical parts of our stack while delivering new product capabilities. This is a hands-on role focused on solving core engineering challenges related to availability reliability throughput and real-time performance. If you are excited about building fault-tolerant systems that process millions of transactions with speed and precision wed love to talk.
Technologies we use:
- Backend: Kotlin Java
- RESTful APIs gRPC
- AWS (EC2 S3 RDS SQS)
- MySQL DynamoDB Redis
- Kubernetes Ambassador Helm
What you will be doing:
- Lead Technical Vision & Strategy: Drive the technical roadmap and long-term vision for Greenlights payment platform ensuring it aligns with company goals and industry best practices.
- Architect & Design Solutions: Design and implement highly scalable secure and resilient payment processing systems including integrations with various payment networks processors and banking partners.
- Hands-on Development: Write high-quality maintainable and well-tested code primarily in mention specific languages like Java Go Python etc. if applicable otherwise keep it general. Youll tackle complex technical challenges from end-to-end.
- Mentorship & Guidance: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers on the team fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement. Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback.
- Drive Best Practices: Champion engineering best practices including observability incident response disaster recovery and security within the payments domain.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product managers compliance finance and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Incident Response & Optimization: Mentor the team to proactively prevent incidents focusing on identifying and mitigating potential issues to ensure the continuous high availability and optimized performance of payment services.
What you should bring:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Extensive Experience: 8 years of professional software development experience with at least 3 years specifically focused on payment processing financial technology (FinTech) or highly regulated industries.
- Deep Payments Domain Knowledge: Proven expertise in payment gateways payment processors card networks (Visa Mastercard) ACH real-time payments and related financial protocols.
- Strong Architecture & Design Skills: Demonstrated ability to design complex distributed systems with a focus on scalability reliability security and fault tolerance. Experience with microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in Specific Languages/Technologies: Strong programming skills in languages such as Java Go Python or similar. Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure) and containerization technologies (Docker Kubernetes) is essential.
- Database Expertise: Solid understanding of relational and/or NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL Cassandra DynamoDB) and experience with data modeling for high-throughput transactional systems.
- Problem-Solving Acumen: Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with a track record of debugging complex issues in production environments.
- Leadership & Communication: Excellent communication collaboration and interpersonal skills. Ability to clearly articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Mentorship & Influence: A desire to mentor junior and mid-level engineers elevate the teams technical capabilities and influence technical direction across multiple teams.
- Here are a couple of ways to rephrase that to sound like a good to have rather than a strict requirement:
- AI Aptitude: A foundational to deep understanding of AI and its potential to drive innovative solutions within the payment domain would be a strong plus.
Who we are:
It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. Were looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger people who look to others and ask How can I help and then How can we make this even better If youre ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation apply to join our team.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age race color national origin gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation religion physical or mental disability medical condition (including pregnancy childbirth or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth) genetic information marital status veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local law.
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