Staff Software Engineer, Payments Orchestration Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental, vision

Home office setup allowance

Internet stipend

401k match

Parental leave

Diversity & inclusion

Job summary

Trustly, a global leader in Open Banking Payments, is expanding its US engineering hub in San Francisco. We seek a senior staff-level engineer to own Payments Orchestration data and configuration end-to-end, driving reliability, architecture, and production-readiness as part of a growing, high-impact team.

You will map and understand a mature codebase using AI tools, contribute design docs and runbooks, and help hire and lead the team within your first year. Hybrid SF office presence required.

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years building and operating production software systems, including staff-level ownership.
• Hands-on experience with payments, banking or other financial systems where correctness, auditability and uptime matter.
• 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), with clear views on where they help and where human review has to hold.
• Strong distributed systems design: data consistency, idempotency, concurrency.
• Clear writing. Your design docs and incident write-ups are the ones other people reuse.
• Production experience with Java or a comparable backend language.
• Experience owning core entity data and configuration services where duplicate or inconsistent records have direct financial impact.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture, service contracts and production health of Payments Orchestration: Customer, Merchant and Configuration Data.
• 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, interface definitions and runbooks that engineers and AI agents can work from.
• Partner with the engineers who run these systems today, across the Americas and Europe, to transfer knowledge.
• Direct AI-assisted implementation: write and close implementation plans, review output against requirements, and own integration testing.
• Help hire and shape the team that will own this domain.

Skills

Production software systems

Payments / Banking systems

On-call / Pager responsibility

Codebase ownership

AI coding tools

Distributed systems design

Technical writing / design docs

Java / Backend

Data / configuration services

Job description

Trustly, a global leader in Open Banking Payments, is expanding its US engineering hub in San Francisco. We seek a senior staff-level engineer to own Payments Orchestration data and configuration end-to-end, driving reliability, architecture, and production-readiness as part of a growing, high-impact team.

You will map and understand a mature codebase using AI tools, contribute design docs and runbooks, and help hire and lead the team within your first year. Hybrid SF office presence required.