Lead Software Engineer, Payment Platform & AI Tools

Roku; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 400,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity awards

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Parental leave

Wellness benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Roku Pay is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive architectural excellence and hands-on implementation for a scalable payments platform. You will lead evaluation of new technologies, influence the roadmap, and own key initiatives, while mentoring teams and maintaining high code quality.

You will work across product and engineering, shaping platform layers, and advocating best practices in development, QA, and ops. This role emphasizes deep technical leadership with hands-on coding.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor) and ability to delegate, review, and integrate AI-generated code into production.
• 15+ years of experience in large-scale backend services, specifically within payment system architecture and implementation.
• Strong architectural design experience for highly available and scalable payment platforms.
• Experience with multi-cloud solutions and guiding design, deployment, and scaling across clouds.
• Strong expertise in payments and billing systems and in building CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Use agentic AI coding tools as part of daily workflow, delegating tasks to AI, reviewing and refining AI-generated code, and integrating it into production.
• Build and ship features using AI coding agents, delegating implementation, reviewing output, and owning quality.
• Own the building of platform features, driving work with product and other engineering teams.
• Own design and implementation of shared architectural layers and libraries across teams.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead adoption of new designs addressing platform challenges.
• Participate in architectural discussions, influence the technical roadmap, and own key initiatives.
• Review technical specification documents and mentor team members to raise quality.
• Stay hands-on with code and design reviews, spending ~70% of time writing code.
• Champion best practices and a culture of innovation and reuse across development, QA, and infrastructure/ops.

Skills

Agentic coding tools

Backend payments experience

Architectural design

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

AI collaboration & review

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

AWS

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Roku Pay is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive architectural excellence and hands-on implementation for a scalable payments platform. You will lead evaluation of new technologies, influence the roadmap, and own key initiatives, while mentoring teams and maintaining high code quality.

You will work across product and engineering, shaping platform layers, and advocating best practices in development, QA, and ops. This role emphasizes deep technical leadership with hands-on coding.