AI-Driven Payments Engineer: Scale Transactions

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 56,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Payments Engineer to own and scale the core payments stack, integrating with processors such as Stripe, Adyen, and Plaid. This backend‑focused role emphasizes ownership, mentoring, and delivering reliable authorization, settlement, reconciliation, and disputes while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.

You will collaborate with Product, Risk, and Compliance to ship robust APIs and maintain security in a PCI‑DSS

Qualifications

• 7+ years backend or full-stack experience in payments/fintech
• Strong Go or Python experience with REST APIs
• Experience with payment processors integration and settlements
• Distributed cloud architecture experience with queues and idempotent processing

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services in Go that integrate with payment processors
• Own money-movement flows: authorization, capture, settlement, refunds, reconciliation
• Implement auditable, fault-tolerant transaction processing in distributed systems
• Mentor teammates and lead small projects when needed

Skills

Go

Python

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

SQS

RabbitMQ

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC in the United States is seeking a Senior Payments Engineer to own and scale the core payments stack, integrating with processors such as Stripe, Adyen, and Plaid. This backend‑focused role emphasizes ownership, mentoring, and delivering reliable authorization, settlement, reconciliation, and disputes while leveraging AI tools to accelerate development.

You will collaborate with Product, Risk, and Compliance to ship robust APIs and maintain security in a PCI‑DSS