Payments Engineer
Core
Building deterministic, observable, and resilient financial infrastructure to scale payout, settlement, and reconciliation systems for a high-volume AI marketplace.
Role type
Senior backend engineer (payments infrastructure)
Builds
Immutable operational ledgers, settlement ingestion pipelines, and automated payout orchestration systems
Domain
Fintech / Payments infrastructure / High-scale distributed systems
Required skills
Backend platform engineering, Payment gateway integration (Stripe, Adyen), Transactional databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), Compiled languages (Go, Rust, C++), Message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS), Distributed systems frameworks (Temporal, Kubernetes), Reliability engineering, Financial compliance (PCI-DSS)
Preferred skills
Experience in high-stakes domains (fintech, billing), System-level thinking, Root-cause analysis
Technologies
Stripe, Adyen, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Go, Rust, C++, Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, Temporal, Kubernetes
Responsibilities
Automate payout orchestration workflows, Design and build real operational ledgers, Build settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines, Improve observability across payment processor flows, Eliminate recurring payment bugs at the root cause, Reduce manual treasury overhead
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC