Staff Software Engineer - Payments

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Key Responsibilities

Design and evolve the core tax remittance product that moves $30B+ across 40+ countries and 5000+ tax agencies, with reliability and correctness as first principles.

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Responsibilities

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→Lead the Architecture and Development: Design and evolve the core tax remittance product that moves $30B+ across 40+ countries and 5000+ tax agencies, with reliability and correctness as first principles.
→Own Tax Remittance Pipelines: Architect and build end-to-end pipelines that orchestrate the full lifecycle of tax payments — from salary payout to agency remittance and refunds — ensuring payments are timely, accurate, auditable, and compliant.
→Scale Distributed Payment Systems: Develop and optimize distributed systems that handle high-throughput, multi-currency tax remittances, agency cut-offs, retries, reconciliation, and failure recovery at global scale.
→Drive Technical Excellence: Set the bar for reliability, observability, security, and regulatory/audit readiness in a mission-critical domain where every deployment impacts people’s livelihoods.
→Cross-Team & External Collaboration: Partner closely with Payroll, Banking, Finance Ops, Compliance, and external payment partners/tax agencies to define roadmaps, de-risk launches, and unlock new geographies and products.
→Mentor and Influence: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the org, influencing architecture, design reviews, and operational practices to build a high-performance, ownership-driven culture.

Requirements

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Experience: 9+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a role leading architecture, designing consumer facing products and building systems.
Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in backend development, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines.
Data Pipeline Experience: Hands-on experience with data processing frameworks
Scalability and Performance: Deep knowledge of building and scaling real-time, high-throughput systems.
Consumer-Facing Product Development: Experience working on consumer-grade applications with a focus on intuitive user experiences.
Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and debugging skills with a passion for solving complex technical challenges.
Communication: Ability to convey technical concepts to both engineering and non-engineering audiences effectively.