Staff Product Engineer - Payments Platform & Tokenization

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an engineer who combines product intuition with strong software craftsmanship to extend and scale our core platform used by leading merchants, acquirers, and card issuers.

You will ship features iteratively, set engineering standards, and collaborate with customers, vendors, and partners to deliver reusable solutions that solve real business problems in payments and token management.

Qualifications

• Strong product instincts with holistic UX, API design, and system correctness.
• Experience shipping high-quality software in fast-paced, product-led environments.
• Optimistic problem-solver who can ship features despite challenges.
• Enjoys an agentic engineering environment and values technical depth.
• Willing to work directly with customers and vendors to own features end-to-end.
• Intuition for payments, tokenization, and credential management, or ability to learn quickly.
• Care about craft and delivering great product experiences.
• Thrives independently and in small, high-ownership teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale extensions on top of the core platform for enterprise customers.
• Ship features iteratively, balancing MVP needs with scalable product offers.
• Set engineering standards, shape team culture, and contribute to the roadmap.
• Work with customers, vendors, and partners to solve business problems with reusable software.
• Contribute to architecture decisions in payment tokenization, network token management, and credential orchestration.

Skills

Product instincts

UX design

API design

System correctness

Shipping high-quality software

Customer engagement

Payments domain intuition

Technical craftsmanship

Independent work

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an engineer who combines product intuition with strong software craftsmanship to extend and scale our core platform used by leading merchants, acquirers, and card issuers.

You will ship features iteratively, set engineering standards, and collaborate with customers, vendors, and partners to deliver reusable solutions that solve real business problems in payments and token management.