Staff Engineer, Native Connectivity Platform for Payments

Trustly; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible paid time off

Medical, dental, vision

Home office setup allowance

Internet stipend

401k match

Parental leave

Job summary

Trustly moves money between consumers, merchants and banks across the US. This hybrid SF-based role will own the Native Connectivity Platform end to end, driving architecture, production health, and AI-assisted development.

You’ll lead design docs, runbooks, and integration tests while helping hire the team that will own this domain. You have 10+ years in production software, with payments knowledge, and comfort with AI coding tools.

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years building and operating production software systems.
• Hands‑on experience with payments, banking or other financial systems where correctness, auditability and uptime matter most.
• You have carried the pager for systems you built, and improved them because of it.
• A track record of taking over an unfamiliar, business‑critical codebase and becoming its owner.
• Daily use of AI coding tools (such as Claude Code, Cursor or Copilot).
• Strong distributed systems design: data consistency, idempotency, concurrency.
• Production experience with Java or a comparable backend language.
• Experience building and running large fleets of web or app integrations against systems you don’t control.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, service contracts and production health of Native Connectivity Platform.
• Own the operation of your services: on‑call, SLAs, incident response and root‑cause fixes.
• Meet the observability standards set for every service, and make the service measurably better each quarter.
• Use AI tools to understand existing code quickly, then turn what you learn into design docs and runbooks.
• Partner with engineers across the Americas and Europe to transfer knowledge.
• Direct AI‑assisted implementation: write and close implementation plans and run integration tests.
• Help hire and shape the team that will own this domain.

Skills

10+ years experience

Payments experience

AI coding tools

Distributed systems

Java backend

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Job description

Trustly moves money between consumers, merchants and banks across the US. This hybrid SF-based role will own the Native Connectivity Platform end to end, driving architecture, production health, and AI-assisted development.

You’ll lead design docs, runbooks, and integration tests while helping hire the team that will own this domain. You have 10+ years in production software, with payments knowledge, and comfort with AI coding tools.