Staff Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and workflows for high-scale money movement and settlement
• Own the architectural direction for the settlement domain in partnership with the CTO
• Review and approve architecture decision records (ADRs) and technical designs
• Drive end-to-end execution for large, ambiguous initiatives
• Improve correctness and operational safety across settlement flows, including idempotency and reconciliation guarantees
• Partner with Engineering Management and Product to shape roadmaps and strategy
• Raise engineering standards by defining consistent patterns for building money-movement systems
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices to improve throughput and quality

Requirements

• 10+ years building and operating backend systems at Staff-level scope
• Proven ability to own critical production workflows end-to-end
• Strong system design fundamentals in reliability, consistency, and data modeling
• Demonstrated experience owning architectural direction for complex domains
• Ability to move between high-level architecture and hands-on coding
• Clear communication and strong judgment in high-stakes environments
• Comfort adopting AI-assisted engineering workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Payments or fintech experience
• Strong experience with Ruby on Rails and Go
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Datadog
• Track record of decomposing monoliths
• Experience building reconciliation, settlement, or financial reporting pipelines

About the Company

PayNearMe is on a mission to make paying and getting paid as simple as possible through innovative technology that transforms the payment experience for businesses and their customers.