Senior Staff Software Engineer

Fortune 500 Payment processing company; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global payment processing company seeks a seasoned Sr. Staff Engineer to lead engineering initiatives, enhance mobile solutions, and mentor junior engineers. This role requires extensive experience in mobile development and a passion for innovative tech that drives performance. You will play a crucial role in shaping the future of payments technology.

Benefits

401(k)

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

Annual performance bonus

Equity options

H1B/T1 sponsorship available

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in Mobile Development in iOS.
• Strong understanding of testing best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering efforts and team-level processes.
• Support end-to-end ownership of software design and implementation.

Skills

Mobile Development

Swift

GraphQL

REST APIs

Mentoring

Testing Best Practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Xcode

REST

GraphQL

Job description

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$107,300.00/yr - $259,600.00/yr

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The Company -

We are seeking seasoned Sr. Staff Engineers for multiple positions(positions open in New York as well) for a direct hire permanent role with a major global payment processing company that has been revolutionizing commerce for over 25 years. This company provides secure, innovative experiences to move money, sell, and shop, empowering consumers and businesses across approximately 200 markets to thrive in the global economy.

Operating a vast two-sided network, this company connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers worldwide, facilitating seamless payments for both online and in-person transactions. Their end-to-end payment solutions help merchants with authorization, settlement, customer engagement, risk management, and cross-border transactions, all while keeping customer convenience and security at the forefront.

Job Description:

We are creating a product that people love. We strive to create a delightful user experience while connecting the world and empowering people through payments. We are looking for intellectually curious people who want to be inspired and inspire others to change the world. Engineering is a craft, & we want the internals of our software to be as elegant as the end user experience we are designing. We spend our days scaling our infrastructure and building new features to meet and exceed our users’ needs and wants. We teach and learn from one another and push each other to be at our creative and analytical best.

As a member of our Engineering team, you will act as a subject matter expert. We are looking for technologists with the highest levels of technical talent, programming, and communication skills with a keen desire to deeply understand our product and how to make our systems stronger and more resilient.

Come join our team!

What will you do:

• Lead engineering efforts and team-level processes by defining outcomes for others, refining ongoing processes, and providing technical advice to senior leaders on systems, solutions, challenges, and strategy.
• Evangelist for technical standards, engineering best practices, and quality across our larger team. Determine the technical tasks that other engineers will follow.
• Support end-to-end ownership of design, implementation, and operational excellence of software components while proactively improving existing structures and processes.
• Contribute to the technical engineering roadmap by completing quality and thorough assessments of implementation alternatives and their associated tradeoffs and providing recommendations.
• Be consistently solutions-focused while contributing to the vision of the domain and our larger technical engineering roadmap.
• Exercises judgment in reconciling diverse and competing priorities to identify optimal solutions to problems.
• Leverage strategic thinking and experience to look ahead and anticipate consequences and risks linked to implementation choices; able to identify patterns to reduce repetition into meaningful general solutions.
• Serves as an expert to resolve technical inquiries of others.
• Be able to provide technical leadership for an organization, with limited guidance from management or senior teammates.
• Strong skills in interacting and tailoring communication with various technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as product, support, finance, compliance, and legal.

Job Requirements:

• 10+ years' experience in Mobile Development in iOS.
• Experience developing and maintaining consumer-facing (not just enterprise) mobile applications at scale. Strong Swift skills & knowledge of multi-threaded, asynchronous code.
• Deep understanding and knowledge around consuming GraphQL and REST APIs from Mobile applications.
• Passionate about mentoring and developing junior software engineers.
• Ability to understand, communicate, and discuss complex topics with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong understanding of testing best practices and familiarity with at least one testing framework for Mobile Development. Skilled at writing Unit and Automation tests.
• Strong knowledge of common design patterns, algorithms, and object-oriented programming with expertise in design patterns such as VIPER and MVVM.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with mobile payment technologies and integrations.
• Proficiency in Swift, Objective-C, and React Native.
• Knowledge of mobile performance optimization techniques.
• Experience with mobile payments and financial services.
• Deep understanding of mobile industry trends and competitive landscape.
• Strong ability to build and maintain relationships with external partners.

Compensation & Benefits -

This opportunity offers a competitive total compensation package above market standards, which includes a base salary, annual performance bonus, and equity. H1B/ T1 sponsorship will also be provided if needed(for people with 'at least 2 years' left on their current visa).

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Financial Services, Software Development, and Banking

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401(k)

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

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