Staff Engineer, Ledger & Payments Platform

Take Command; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ICHRA health benefits

Unlimited vacation

401(k) with match

Office locations in Richardson and ACL

Parental leave

Paw-ternity leave

ClassPass membership

Flexible remote work

Job summary

Take Command is building a leading ledger and payments platform in the United States. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to own architecture and delivery for money movement, reconciliations, and related financial workflows.

The role combines deep backend work with strategic technical leadership. You'll influence the direction of our financial stack, work primarily with Java, Postgres, and AWS, and participate in a path to TS on the stack.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating production financial systems.
• Hands-on experience with ledgers, payment systems, card payments, banking integrations, reimbursements, or similar money movement infrastructure.
• Strong backend engineering experience, ideally with Java or a similar language.
• Strong relational database experience, especially with data models that require accuracy, traceability, and long-term maintainability.
• Ability to lead through technical judgment, clear communication, mentorship, and execution.
• Comfort working through ambiguous product and technical problems.
• A product-minded approach to engineering, with an interest in how technical decisions affect customers, operations, and the business.
• Pragmatic judgment about when to invest deeply, when to keep things simple, and how to make trade-offs without losing sight of financial integrity.

Responsibilities

• Drive architecture and implementation for ledger, payments, and money movement capabilities, both through your own contributions and by guiding technical decisions across the team.
• Design systems that handle financial events, balances, reimbursements, payment states, reconciliation, reversals, and related workflows.
• Build reliable backend services, integrations, and data models for systems where correctness matters.
• Partner with product and engineering leaders to shape the direction of our financial platform.
• Bring practical experience from production financial systems to help us avoid common mistakes and choose proven patterns.
• Mentor other engineers and help establish strong engineering patterns for financial systems.
• This role doesn’t require people management, but the opportunity does.

Skills

Java

Backend engineering

Ledger systems

Payments systems

Banking integrations

Leadership

Tools

PostgreSQL

AWS

TypeScript

React

Job description

Take Command is building a leading ledger and payments platform in the United States. We are seeking a Staff Engineer to own architecture and delivery for money movement, reconciliations, and related financial workflows.

The role combines deep backend work with strategic technical leadership. You'll influence the direction of our financial stack, work primarily with Java, Postgres, and AWS, and participate in a path to TS on the stack.