SeniorStaff Engineer
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 200000 - 280000
Posted on:
17 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Location: San Francisco CA or New York NY
Compensation: $200000 $.4% 0.8% Equity
Type: Full-Time
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B O-1 OPT
About The Company
Client is building global payments infrastructure for the future of work currently moving $1.5B/year to over 1M payees. The company focuses on high-scale high-throughput backend systems to enable seamless payments and gig worker payouts.
Company Culture Emphasizes
- High autonomy and ownership
- Iterative high-velocity product development
- Collaboration with highly skilled engineers
- Building systems that handle large amounts of financial data reliably
About The Role Senior/Staff Engineer
As a Senior/Staff Engineer you will design build and scale production-ready backend systems that process high volumes of data for global payments. Youll contribute across the stack collaborate with product and engineering leadership and take ownership of major technical decisions.
This Role Is Ideal For Engineers Who
- Thrive in high-ambiguity high-impact environments
- Enjoy building end-to-end systems with measurable outcomes
- Want to work on FinTech infrastructure at scale
- Are comfortable iterating quickly and shipping scrappy but robust systems
Tech Stack
- Frontend: React
- Backend: Python
- Infrastructure: AWS ECS
- Tools: GitHub Linear Slack Notion
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend systems for high-throughput payments
- Launch and iterate on applications or large-scale software projects
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver impact
- Work with large datasets and distributed systems
- Optionally participate in recruiting: sourcing interviewing and hiring engineers
Requirements
- 7 years experience designing and shipping production-grade systems
- Strong backend experience (Python preferred)
- Comfortable building systems for high-throughput data processing
- Track record of launching and iterating software projects
- Able to move fast and work autonomously
- Recruiting experience is a plus
Green Flags (Strong Matches)
- Experience in FinTech or finance
- Background in traditional finance companies (e.g. Bloomberg JP Morgan)
- Startup experience (Seed/Series A 34 years)
- Previous experience at high-growth companies like Stripe Ramp or Brex
- Infrastructure experience with AWS K8s
- Worked with Python and React at scale
Benefits & Perks
- Private medical insurance (including dental and vision)
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Regular team off-sites
- 401(k) plan
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Python
- VMware
- C/C++
- Go
- System Architecture
- gRPC
- OS Kernels
- Perl
- Distributed Systems
