Senior Backend Engineer, Global Payments Infrastructure

Recruiting from Scratch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Relocation assistance

Housing bonus

Meal stipend

Wellness reimbursements

Medical/dental/vision

Job summary

Recruiting from Scratch is building the payments infrastructure for a world-scale AI platform. We seek a senior backend engineer to design payout orchestration, settlement processing, ledger management, and end-to-end observability across payment workflows.

You will work with Finance, Product, and Ops to drive architecture improvements, integrate Stripe/Adyen, and build scalable services in Go, Rust, or C++, with a strong emphasis on reliability and ownership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Strong background in building production systems within payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure.
• Proven ability to develop scalable backend services with emphasis on correctness and reliability.
• Experience integrating payment gateways like Stripe, Adyen, or similar providers.
• Familiarity with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build next-gen payments infrastructure for global operations.
• Develop reliable back-end systems for payout orchestration, settlement processing, reconciliation, and ledger management.
• Build end-to-end observability across payment workflows to detect failures and improve reliability.
• Design auditable ledger systems for financial correctness and scalability.
• Automate treasury, payout, and financial operations workflows.
• Architect scalable settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines across providers.
• Improve resilience, monitoring, and fault tolerance of distributed financial systems.
• Integrate with banking APIs and payment processors while maintaining portability.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Finance, Product, Operations, and Fraud teams to improve reliability.
• Lead long-term architectural improvements to address root causes.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Observability

Payments integration

Go/Rust/C++

Tools

Stripe integration

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

Recruiting from Scratch is building the payments infrastructure for a world-scale AI platform. We seek a senior backend engineer to design payout orchestration, settlement processing, ledger management, and end-to-end observability across payment workflows.

You will work with Finance, Product, and Ops to drive architecture improvements, integrate Stripe/Adyen, and build scalable services in Go, Rust, or C++, with a strong emphasis on reliability and ownership.