Staff Software Engineer - Remote (Global Payments)

Paymentology; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Career growth toward Principal

Job summary

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive technical strategy across a major engineering domain and guide cross‑team initiatives. You will mentor senior engineers, shape architectures and partner with Product, Operations and other stakeholders to align roadmaps.

This role emphasizes reliability, scalability and hands‑on contribution when needed. You will operate within a globally distributed team, enabling real‑time payment systems at scale and offering a clear career path toward

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing, building and operating complex backend or distributed systems (10+ years).
• Experience leading significant technical initiatives across multiple teams or systems.
• Ability to establish technical direction without relying on formal authority.
• Strong architectural judgement balancing delivery with long-term sustainability.
• Experience breaking down ambiguous problems and aligning practical solutions.
• Deep understanding of software design, system architecture and engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with microservices, APIs and event-driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases, data modelling and system performance.
• Experience building and operating software in cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Understanding of containers, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability and modern operations.

Responsibilities

• Drive the technical strategy for a significant engineering domain or cross-team initiative.
• Translate large, ambiguous or unfamiliar problems into a clear technical direction and an achievable delivery approach.
• Shape architectures that support Paymentology’s long-term product and business needs.
• Evaluate complex technical trade-offs and communicate clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Create architectural patterns, engineering standards and sensible defaults that can be adopted across teams.
• Identify and mitigate long-term risks relating to reliability, scalability, security, maintainability and operational complexity.
• Ensure dependencies and technical decisions are understood and aligned across teams.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations and other stakeholders to inform roadmaps and delivery decisions.
• Unblock teams working through particularly difficult technical or organisational challenges.
• Mentor senior engineers and help them develop their technical leadership, decision‑making and system‑design capabilities.
• Lead working groups and cross‑team initiatives that improve Paymentology’s wider engineering capability.
• Raise the standard of testing, observability, code quality, incident response and operational readiness.
• Contribute directly to critical systems when hands‑on technical involvement is the most effective way to make progress.
• Help teams navigate complex situations with clarity, empathy and accountability.

Skills

Backend design

Technical leadership

Architectural judgement

Mentoring engineers

Cloud (AWS)

Microservices

API design

DevOps / CI-CD

Observability

Tools

Java

AWS

Docker/Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

Paymentology is seeking a Staff Engineer to drive technical strategy across a major engineering domain and guide cross‑team initiatives. You will mentor senior engineers, shape architectures and partner with Product, Operations and other stakeholders to align roadmaps.

This role emphasizes reliability, scalability and hands‑on contribution when needed. You will operate within a globally distributed team, enabling real‑time payment systems at scale and offering a clear career path toward