Role Overview Staff Software Engineer
We are seeking a
Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for large-scale, mission-critical services in the
Payments domain. This role is responsible for
architectural ownership across teams, driving long-term technical vision, and ensuring platform scalability, resilience, and engineering excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership & Architecture
- Own and evolve the end-to-end architecture of high-scale, distributed payment services
- Lead the design and adoption of event-driven architectures using Kafka across multiple teams
- Define, standardize, and govern API design and lifecycle using API Gateway
- Drive architectural decisions with a strong focus on scalability, reliability, security, and performance
- Act as the technical authority for service design, trade-offs, and long-term platform evolution
Platform Ownership & Engineering Excellence
- Own service health, SLIs/SLOs, and operational readiness across owned domains
- Lead complex cross-team initiatives, resolving systemic technical challenges
- Establish and enforce engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices
- Lead design reviews and provide guidance on complex system design problems
Mentorship & Org Impact
- Mentor and coach senior, mid-level, and junior engineers
- Raise the technical bar across teams through design guidance, reviews, and knowledge sharing
- Partner with Product, Engineering Managers, and Leadership on roadmaps and technical strategy
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience designing, building, and owning production-grade distributed systems
- Deep expertise in Java (11+), Spring Boot, and RESTful API design
- Strong hands-on experience with Kafka in high-throughput, event-driven systems
- Proven experience defining and managing APIs using API Gateway
- Strong experience with AWS (EKS, DynamoDB, SQS, Lambda, S3)
- Demonstrated ownership of high-volume, highly available systems
- Advanced skills in system design, debugging, performance tuning, and failure analysis
- Proven ability to drive complex initiatives independently and influence across teams
Good to Have
- Experience in Payments / FinTech platforms
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation
- Knowledge of caching strategies, data modeling, and large-scale optimization
- Exposure to platform engineering or shared services architectures
