Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Payments Platform

Planet; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Planet is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to elevate the engineering bar for the domain that clears, settles, funds and reports on transactions. You will shape agentic workflows, drive platform evolution, and partner with Principal Engineers to ensure stable, resilient systems.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic influence across teams and operations, reporting to the Director of Software Engineering.

Qualifications

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and production systems.
• Deep understanding of OO design, patterns and data architectures.
• Experience with scalable, observable, production-grade services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the move to agentic development across domains and teams.
• Collaborate with teams to shape platform evolution with safe, incremental changes.
• Ensure stability during incidents and drive continuous improvement for resilience.
• Raise engineering standards across testing, reviews, delivery and observability.
• Coach engineers and foster cross-team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
• Bridge operations and strategy with product leadership to identify high-value problems.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

Design patterns

Relational databases

Event-driven architectures

Java

Job description

Planet is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to elevate the engineering bar for the domain that clears, settles, funds and reports on transactions. You will shape agentic workflows, drive platform evolution, and partner with Principal Engineers to ensure stable, resilient systems.

The role blends hands-on coding with strategic influence across teams and operations, reporting to the Director of Software Engineering.