Senior Staff Engineer, Payments Platform: Scale & Impact

Academic Key; Amsterdam; Remoto; EUR 150.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Airwallex is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Payments in Amsterdam. You will define the technical direction of the Payments Platform, lead architecture decisions, and build scalable backend services in a microservices environment.

You’ll work with product, business and external teams to translate merchant needs into robust technical solutions. You will mentor engineers, elevate testing and reliability, and ensure high-quality delivery across gateways, acquiring, issuing, and local payment

Competenze

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with leadership ownership of backend systems.
• Experience with high-volume distributed systems, preferably in payments/fintech.

Mansioni

• Define the technical direction for Airwallex Payments Platform and lead architecture decisions.
• Build scalable backend services, REST APIs, and event-driven components within a microservices architecture.
• Collaborate with product, business, and external teams to meet merchant needs with reliable solutions.
• Mentor engineers, improve code quality, testing, and observability across the stack.

Conoscenze

Staff-level leadership

Distributed systems

Java/Kotlin

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Docker & Kubernetes

Observability tools

Communication

Strumenti

Kafka

Cassandra

Hazelcast

Oracle Coherence

Datadog

New Relic

ELK

Prometheus

Descrizione del lavoro

Airwallex is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for Payments in Amsterdam. You will define the technical direction of the Payments Platform, lead architecture decisions, and build scalable backend services in a microservices environment.

You’ll work with product, business and external teams to translate merchant needs into robust technical solutions. You will mentor engineers, elevate testing and reliability, and ensure high-quality delivery across gateways, acquiring, issuing, and local payment