Software Engineer, Payments Platform

Travls; United States; Remote; USD 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Travls is seeking an experienced backend engineer to design and operate services powering payments, wallets, and travel journeys. You’ll work with product and operations partners to turn customer and partner needs into secure, maintainable systems, with a focus on reliability and clear engineering practices.

The position is full-time and remote in India. This full-time remote role focuses on API design, service reliability, observability, and code quality, collaborating with cross-functional

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering in production.
• Strong Java skills for API/microservice development.
• Experience with relational databases and data modelling.
• Familiarity with testing, code review, CI/CD.
• Security-minded with performance and reliability focus.
• Professional English fluency and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve backend services for payments, wallet, and travel integrations.
• Build secure, well-documented APIs for internal and external use.
• Strengthen service reliability, observability, and performance.
• Collaborate with product and operations to shape technical solutions.
• Write tested, maintainable code and participate in peer reviews.
• Investigate incidents and implement improvements and monitoring.

Skills

Java

APIs/Microservices

Relational databases

CI/CD practices

Security and performance

English communication

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate backend services that power payment, wallet, card, and travel journeys. You’ll work with product and operations partners to turn customer and partner needs into secure, maintainable systems, with a focus on reliability and clear engineering practices. The position is full-time and remote in India.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve backend services for payments, card operations, wallet features, and travel integrations.
• Build secure, well-documented APIs for internal teams and external partners.
• Strengthen service reliability, observability, performance, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with product and operations teams to shape technical solutions around real requirements.
• Write tested, maintainable code; participate in peer review and document engineering decisions.
• Investigate production incidents and help prevent recurrence through system improvements and monitoring.

Requirements

• At least four years of backend engineering experience in a production environment.
• Strong Java skills and experience building APIs or microservices for customer-facing systems.
• Working knowledge of data modelling, relational databases, distributed systems, and service reliability.
• Experience with testing, code review, and continuous integration and deployment practices.
• Careful approach to security, performance, debugging, and operational ownership.
• Clear communication, effective cross-functional collaboration, and professional English fluency.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kotlin, cloud infrastructure, or container platforms may be helpful.