Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Order Platform)

Location: Remote within the United States; occasional office work may apply only to proximal roles.

Salary: $230,000–$290,000 per year in CA, WA, NY, NJ, and CT; $204,000–$264,000 per year in other U.S. states.

Company

Fintech product company developing transparent buy-now-pay-later and consumer credit services.

What you will do

• Set technical strategy for the Order Platform over a year-long planning horizon and connect it to business-critical projects.
• Design and evolve systems supporting orders, captures, refunds, settlement, and post-checkout APIs.
• Define domain boundaries, migrate existing merchant integrations, and enable future product launches.
• Own operational availability through monitoring, alerting, testing, playbooks, triage rotations, and on-call processes.
• Establish code review and design standards while communicating technical direction through writing and tech talks.
• Mentor engineers, provide feedback, and collaborate with product management, design, and analytics.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience designing, developing, and launching backend systems at scale.
• Strong experience with Python or Kotlin and highly available distributed systems.
• Experience with AWS, MySQL, Spark, and Kubernetes.
• Expertise in API boundaries, reliability, consistency, idempotency, and failure handling, ideally in payments, commerce, ledger, or another financially sensitive domain.
• Experience creating technical and execution plans for major features, system components, or deprecations.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience, with strong written and verbal communication skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first work model within the country of employment.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage with premiums fully subsidized for employees and dependents.
• Flexible spending stipends for technology, food, lifestyle, and family-forming expenses.
• Competitive vacation and holiday schedules.
• Employee stock purchase plan with discounted shares.

Hiring process

• Inclusive interview process with reasonable accommodations available for candidates with disabilities.