Staff Software Engineer, Link - Consumer Identity

Description

The team builds Link, which helps the company's merchants offer fast, secure checkout by auto-filling customers' payment details, so shoppers can pay in seconds with one click across the Link merchant network.

The company is a financial infrastructure platform used by millions of businesses, from very large enterprises to early-stage startups, to take payments, grow revenue, and open new business channels. The company's stated goal is to increase the GDP of the internet, and it still has a large amount of work ahead.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and delivery of new money-movement capabilities in Link, turning open-ended product ideas into reliable, scalable, and easy-to-use experiences for consumers and merchants.
• Own large cross-functional projects from early product and technical definition through launch and iteration.
• Set the technical strategy and architecture for ambiguous Link initiatives that introduce new money-movement primitives.
• Own projects end to end: define the problem, write an incremental technical plan, get stakeholders aligned, drive delivery, launch safely, and use results to decide where to invest next.
• Build backend services and consumer-facing experiences in Java, Ruby, and TypeScript.
• Lead a team of engineers through execution, keeping priorities, decisions, risks, and milestones clear.
• Work with Product, Design, Data Science, Risk, Infrastructure, and other the company teams to build safe, reliable, useful capabilities.
• Manage dependencies across the company's payments and money-movement platforms, weighing speed, user experience, operational reliability, and long-term technical foundations.
• Raise the engineering bar through technical leadership, design reviews, mentoring, and direct feedback.
• Help shape the team's longer-term roadmap by identifying opportunities, technical risks, and the investment needed to scale Link's financial capabilities globally.
• Work across the stack on services, APIs, and the user experiences that expose them. The work may involve modern financial infrastructure, including stablecoin-enabled capabilities, and requires sound judgment on safety, reliability, compliance, and user trust.
• Make the architectural decisions that allow the balance model to scale globally.

Requirements

• Minimum: 10+ years of backend and/or full-stack software development experience, including owning large, ambiguous systems end to end.
• Minimum: A record of leading the design and delivery of large, complex software projects from early definition to production launch.
• Minimum: Strong full-stack skills, including reliable backend services and polished user-facing products.
• Minimum: Experience leading and unblocking a group of engineers on a substantial project as a senior individual contributor.
• Minimum: Ability to work in high-ambiguity settings, framing problems, making durable technical decisions, and setting a workable path forward.
• Minimum: Strong cross-functional and cross-organizational collaboration, able to align teams with different systems, priorities, and constraints.
• Minimum: Sound engineering judgment on reliability, operational excellence, security, and maintainability.
• Minimum: A product-minded approach that focuses on meaningful outcomes for users and the business.
• Bonus: Experience with Java, Ruby, and/or TypeScript. The team values solid engineering fundamentals and the ability to learn over expertise in any one language or framework.
• Bonus: Experience building payments, money-movement, fintech, or other regulated financial products.
• Bonus: Experience building consumer products at scale, especially those that require a high degree of user trust.
• Bonus: Experience taking 0→1 products or new capabilities from concept through launch and iteration.
• Bonus: Familiarity with stablecoins, digital assets, or the infrastructure behind global financial products.
• Bonus: Care for good documentation, both internal and external, and a drive to see projects through to completion.