Senior Backend Engineer — Bank Payments (Remote)

Jobicy; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Card for employees

Lunch allowance

Private health care

25 days holiday + public holidays

Hybrid and remote options

Mental health support

Parental leave

Job summary

Pleo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Bank Infrastructure team. You will build and maintain payment rails, integrate with banks and partners, and ensure reliable, accurate processing of financial transactions at scale.

Join a culture of transparency, collaboration, and engineering excellence, with opportunities to mentor others and advance AI-assisted development practices across our systems.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with payment integrations and bank APIs.
• End-to-end understanding of payment flows and settlement.
• Experience building highly available, resilient distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain bank/payment integrations across schemes.
• Ensure reliability of inbound/outbound payment flows and reconciliation.
• Architect systems resilient to outages and edge cases in financial messaging.
• Improve observability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with compliance, finance, product teams.
• Participate in code reviews and mentorship.
• Address technical debt and migrations.

Skills

Payment integrations

Bank APIs

Distributed systems

Kotlin/Java

PostgreSQL

AWS/Kubernetes

Regulatory awareness

AI-enhanced tools

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

Kubernetes

Grafana

Job description

Pleo is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Bank Infrastructure team. You will build and maintain payment rails, integrate with banks and partners, and ensure reliable, accurate processing of financial transactions at scale.

Join a culture of transparency, collaboration, and engineering excellence, with opportunities to mentor others and advance AI-assisted development practices across our systems.