Arrive - Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Payments

Role Overview

Join our Payments Engineering team and continue to build your expertise! We're looking for a collaborative Senior Software Engineer to help build and improve a world-class payment platform that impacts millions of users.

This is your opportunity to take ownership of your work, support your team, and grow your skills in a supportive environment.

Key Responsibilities

Team Collaboration :

• Proactively collaborate with your team, communicating progress and helping to remove obstacles.
• Give and graciously receive direct, useful feedback to improve both your work and the team's processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and help them grow their technical skills while contributing to a supportive team culture that adopts company values.
  
  

Design & Development

• Design small systems or processes with collaborative support, making design choices that prioritize long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Actively participate in design reviews and improvement efforts, anticipating how your work affects upstream and downstream systems.
• Take ownership of the reliability of your deliverables and ensure quality and efficiency in your own work while supporting others to do the same.
  
  

Quality & Operations

• Plan and execute validation for your systems, ensuring repeatable and traceable practices while understanding common failure points.
• Plan and execute validation for systems, utilizing repeatable and traceable practices to monitor performance and mitigate potential security or operational risks.
• Understand testing coverage and common failure points, contributing to documentation to ensure the team learns from every incident.
• Identify recurring operational issues (e.g., latency, throughput bottlenecks) and propose improvements to our cloud-native environment.
  
  

Tech Stack

• RUST, RESTful APIs, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Cloud native.
  
  

Required Skills

• Experience : 5 - 8 years of professional software development experience.
• Domain Knowledge : A deep understanding of the business, user needs, and the technical landscape. You can learn new business logic efficiently and mentor others on our systems and practices.
• Impact & Ownership : You take ownership of your projects, solve problems independently, and have a thorough understanding of the product. You actively participate in production, review others contributions, and have informed opinions on strategic decisions.
• Strategic Mindset : You think beyond immediate tasks, using data and insights to weigh trade-offs and align decisions with long-term goals.
• Security Focus : You have a deep understanding of security, how it affects your domain, and experience with risk assessments and mitigations.
• Team Growth : A passion for growing your team and helping them contribute to their goals.
• Experience in designing and implementing secure-by-design systems that include robust monitoring, reporting, and root-cause analysis to handle the distributed nature of the cloud.
• Experience with DevOps practices : Continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (k8s).
• Rust Expertise : Deep professional experience building and scaling applications using Rust.
• Cloud Native Background : Proven track record migrating applications from on-prem to cloud (AWS, Kubernetes, or similar tools).
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience with billing, financial systems, or high-volume payment gateways.
• Experience in a formal or informal technical leadership role (Team Lead or Lead Engineer).
  
  

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