Senior Staff Software Engineer, Payments

The role

You will provide architectural guardrails for the Payments organization with a focus on Community Partner experiences. You will design decision support, knowledge management, and workflow orchestration systems using AI advancements. You will also lead technical strategy and mentor other engineers.

What you will do

• Collaborate with senior leaders to define and drive long-term technical strategy and architecture.
• Establish technical vision and lead efforts to architect, build, and launch scalable solutions.
• Provide a balanced view of the technology landscape as a critic for existing and new technologies.
• Collaborate with and influence cross-functional partners to design and deliver products.
• Lead multi-team technical initiatives and prioritize requirements for engineering systems.
• Align technical efforts with business outcomes and product priorities.
• Uplevel engineering quality through design/code reviews, mentorship, and hands-on implementation.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers.

Required qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in a hands-on software engineering role.
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree.
• Experience building, leading, and architecting production systems or features with broad impact.
• Demonstrated technical leadership including leading project teams, setting technical direction, and prototyping.
• Experience working cross functionally with Product, Design and Operations teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with technical and non-technical partners.
• Experience driving initiatives that span across teams, departments and leadership.
• Proven experience in defining product/technical strategy and driving alignment with cross-functional leaders and stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Degree in CS

About the company

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