Staff Engineer: Cloud Payments Platform (Remote)

Paymentology; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction for a significant engineering domain and oversee cross-team initiatives. You will drive architectural decisions, partner with product and operations, and mentor engineers to raise the overall capability of the organization.

You will work remotely as part of a global team, tackling complex distributed-system challenges in a high-throughput payments environment and contributing to a cloud-native platform rollout across

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating complex backend or distributed systems.
• Record of leading significant technical initiatives with multiple teams or systems.
• Strong architectural judgement and ability to balance delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Deep understanding of software design, system architecture and engineering fundamentals.
• Fluency in English and the ability to communicate complex topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy for a major engineering domain or cross-team initiative.
• Shape architectures that support long-term product and business needs.
• Evaluate complex trade-offs and communicate evidence-based recommendations.
• Create architectural patterns, standards and sensible defaults for adoption across teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and lead cross-team initiatives to raise engineering capability.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

Microservices

APIs

Event-driven architectures

AWS

CI/CD

Observability

Testing

Leadership

English

Tools

Java

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to shape the technical direction for a significant engineering domain and oversee cross-team initiatives. You will drive architectural decisions, partner with product and operations, and mentor engineers to raise the overall capability of the organization.

You will work remotely as part of a global team, tackling complex distributed-system challenges in a high-throughput payments environment and contributing to a cloud-native platform rollout across