Senior Backend Engineer – Payments Platform (Remote)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (100% company-covered

Disability insurance (100% company)

Meal vouchers €10/day

25 days paid time off

Remote work up to 2 weeks/year

Job summary

the company is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build the payment infrastructure powering services across Europe. You will design APIs and backend components for thousands of merchants and millions of consumers while maintaining high standards of security and performance.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in backend engineering, strong Python skills, and fluency in French with English proficiency. You will collaborate with Product and other tech leaders in a fast-paced, regulated fintech

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering on large-scale systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and relational databases; Python core stack.

Responsibilities

• Build the payment infrastructure and APIs powering payments for millions of users.
• Raise the bar on quality, security and performance.
• Shape our technical architecture in collaboration with product and tech leadership.
• Own reliability end-to-end including incident response and performance tuning.

Skills

Python

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Relational databases

French (fluent)

English (fluent)

APIs

Code reviews

REST

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

PostgreSQL

Redis

Pub/Sub

Datadog

React

Job description

the company is seeking an experienced backend engineer to build the payment infrastructure powering services across Europe. You will design APIs and backend components for thousands of merchants and millions of consumers while maintaining high standards of security and performance.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in backend engineering, strong Python skills, and fluency in French with English proficiency. You will collaborate with Product and other tech leaders in a fast-paced, regulated fintech