Arrive - Senior Software Engineer - Rust - Payments

Arrive; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrive is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale a world-class payments platform that serves millions of users. You will own components, collaborate across teams, and contribute to the reliability and security of the system.

You will mentor peers, design robust solutions, and participate in production operations to ensure high availability and performance in a cloud-native environment.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of professional software development experience
• Experience designing scalable, secure systems
• Strong knowledge of Rust and cloud-native architectures
• Familiarity with CI/CD, containers, and orchestration tools

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the team to deliver high-quality payment platform features.
• Design and implement reliable, scalable components with maintainable code.
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to system improvements.
• Ensure security, monitoring, and incident response are integral to deliverables.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote a collaborative culture.

Skills

Rust

RESTful APIs

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Cloud native

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Role Overview

Join our Payments Engineering team and continue to build your expertise! We’re looking for a collaborative Senior Software Engineer to help build and improve a world-class payment platform that impacts millions of users.

This is your opportunity to take ownership of your work, support your team, and grow your skills in a supportive environment.

Key Responsibilities

Team Collaboration :

• Proactively collaborate with your team, communicating progress and helping to remove obstacles.
• Give and graciously receive direct, useful feedback to improve both your work and the team’s processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and help them grow their technical skills while contributing to a supportive team culture that adopts company values.

Design & Development

• Design small systems or processes with collaborative support, making design choices that prioritize long-term maintainability and scalability.
• Actively participate in design reviews and improvement efforts, anticipating how your work affects upstream and downstream systems.
• Take ownership of the reliability of your deliverables and ensure quality and efficiency in your own work while supporting others to do the same.

Quality & Operations

• Plan and execute validation for your systems, ensuring repeatable and traceable practices while understanding common failure points.
• Plan and execute validation for systems, utilizing repeatable and traceable practices to monitor performance and mitigate potential security or operational risks.
• Understand testing coverage and common failure points, contributing to documentation to ensure the team learns from every incident.
• Identify recurring operational issues (e.g., latency, throughput bottlenecks) and propose improvements to our cloud-native environment.

Tech Stack

• RUST, RESTful APIs, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Cloud native.

Required Skills

• Experience : 5 - 8 years of professional software development experience.
• Domain Knowledge : A deep understanding of the business, user needs, and the technical landscape. You can learn new business logic efficiently and mentor others on our systems and practices.
• Impact & Ownership : You take ownership of your projects, solve problems independently, and have a thorough understanding of the product. You actively participate in production, review others’ contributions, and have informed opinions on strategic decisions.
• Strategic Mindset : You think beyond immediate tasks, using data and insights to weigh trade-offs and align decisions with long-term goals.
• Security Focus : You have a deep understanding of security, how it affects your domain, and experience with risk assessments and mitigations.
• Team Growth : A passion for growing your team and helping them contribute to their goals.
• Experience in designing and implementing "secure-by-design" systems that include robust monitoring, reporting, and root-cause analysis to handle the distributed nature of the cloud.
• Experience with DevOps practices : Continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (k8s).
• Rust Expertise : Deep professional experience building and scaling applications using Rust.
• Cloud Native Background : Proven track record migrating applications from on-prem to cloud (AWS, Kubernetes, or similar tools).

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience with billing, financial systems, or high-volume payment gateways.
• Experience in a formal or informal technical leadership role (Team Lead or Lead Engineer).

(ref:hirist.tech)