Staff Payments Orchestration Engineer – Transactions

Trustly; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, vision coverage

FSA/HSA plans

Home office allowance

Internet stipend

401k match

Parental leave

Job summary

Trustly is expanding its US engineering hubs, including San Francisco, to own Payments Orchestration end-to-end. You will lead architecture, reliability, and production operations while shaping the transaction path across APIs, data, risk scoring and bank rails.

In your first year you may help hire and lead the team responsible for this critical domain. We seek a senior, hands-on engineer with payments experience, strong distributed design skills, and a track record of owning business-critical

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating production software systems.
• Hands-on payments or financial systems experience.
• Has carried pager/on-call responsibilities.
• Capable of taking over unfamiliar, critical codebases.
• Daily use of AI coding tools with clear boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, service contracts and production health of Payments Orchestration: Transactions.
• Own the operation of services: on-call, SLAs, incident response and root-cause fixes.
• Meet observability standards and improve service each quarter.
• Use AI tools to draft design docs, interface definitions and runbooks.
• Partner with Americas and Europe engineers to transfer knowledge.
• Direct AI-assisted implementation and ensure integration testing.
• Help hire and shape the team that will own this domain.

Skills

Senior software engineer

Payments systems

Distributed systems

Java backend

AI coding tools

Concurrency & idempotency

Production ownership

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Copilot

Job description

Trustly is expanding its US engineering hubs, including San Francisco, to own Payments Orchestration end-to-end. You will lead architecture, reliability, and production operations while shaping the transaction path across APIs, data, risk scoring and bank rails.

In your first year you may help hire and lead the team responsible for this critical domain. We seek a senior, hands-on engineer with payments experience, strong distributed design skills, and a track record of owning business-critical