Senior Software Engineer, Backend (International)

Description

The company offers payment options that let customers pay over time with clear terms and no hidden fees.

The Payments International Engineering team builds and runs the bank and card payment systems for the company's markets outside the US. The team is based in Europe, with members in the UK, Spain and Poland.

The team offers customers familiar local payment methods and builds shared tools that make launching in each new country simpler.

Work covers improving current payment flows and laying the groundwork for launches in new countries. You will handle challenges involving multiple currencies and local customer needs, and build reusable solutions. The team works closely with product and engineering colleagues across the company.

The team owns work from design to production and treats testing, monitoring and support as part of building. As the team grows, it helps shape architecture, tooling and engineering practices.

This role means helping build a global payments platform and seeing directly how your systems reach the customers the company can serve.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver your team's quarterly goals.
• Guide engineers through unclear, open-ended problems and make sure everyone on the team gets support through delivery.
• Work with product management, design and analytics from ideation onward, explaining technical limits and helping make decisions that weigh risk and trade-offs.
• Spot problems in projects, processes, technology or the business, push for them to be addressed, and lead the fix.
• Create and watch metrics for your team's systems, escalate when needed, and take part in keeping systems running and on-call work.
• Raise the bar for quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards, and promote them beyond your team through writing and tech talks.
• Develop people on your team through feedback, guidance and your own example.

Requirements

• At least 4 years designing, building and launching large-scale backend systems, using languages such as Python or Kotlin.
• A record of building highly available distributed systems with technologies such as AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
• Experience writing a technical plan for a significant feature or system component, with a design that is simple, elegant and easy to extend. You write clear, high-quality code that others can understand and use.
• Skill at making large changes in a big codebase, backed by tools and practices you have built that let you and your team do this safely.
• You take charge of your own growth and actively ask your team, manager and stakeholders for feedback.
• Strong spoken and written communication that helps a global engineering team work together.
• Base pay grade: N.
• Equity grade: 5.
• New joiners usually start at the bottom of the pay range. Pay is set using a transparent structure that considers location, experience and job-related skills.
• Base pay is part of total compensation, which may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech, plus benefits. You may also be eligible for equity from the company Holdings, Inc., the parent company.
• UK base pay range per year: £120,000 to £168,000.

Conditions

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Remote-first. Most roles can be done from almost anywhere in the country of employment. Some positions may occasionally need in-person work at an office, and a few are office-based. All new hires are invited to an in-person onboarding.

Equal opportunity: the company welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

Benefits

• Health coverage at no cost, including 100% of premiums for you and your dependents.
• Monthly stipends for your tech setup and for health and wellness options that suit you.
• Flexible time off and generous holidays.
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) to buy the company stock at a discount.
• Accommodations for candidates with disabilities during interviews.
• For roles based in San Francisco or Los Angeles: qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records are considered, as required by law.