Senior Platform Engineer - Fintech Payments & APIs

Confidential; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform team to design, build, and maintain core payment infrastructure and APIs that power banking integrations. You will influence the foundation of our technology stack and deliver scalable services for high-volume payments.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, and other engineers to ensure security, reliability, and performance while implementing best practices and modern development workflows in a fast-paced fintech

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with scalable backend systems and APIs.
• Experience leading projects and teams.
• Commercial payments knowledge in fintech preferred.

Responsibilities

• Platform Development: design and implement core platform services and APIs for banking integrations.
• Integration Engineering: build secure, scalable connections with financial institutions.
• Code Quality & Best Practices: write clean, tested code and influence standards.
• System Reliability: ensure high availability with monitoring and error handling.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: work with Product, QA, and Engineering teams.
• Technical Innovation: improve performance, tooling, and architecture.

Skills

Java

Spring

Kubernetes

Microservices

Cloud platforms

Security

API design

Problem-solving

Communication

AI tooling

Tools

Docker

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Confidential is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Platform team to design, build, and maintain core payment infrastructure and APIs that power banking integrations. You will influence the foundation of our technology stack and deliver scalable services for high-volume payments.

You will collaborate with Product, Architecture, and other engineers to ensure security, reliability, and performance while implementing best practices and modern development workflows in a fast-paced fintech