Staff Software Engineer: Scale Secure Payments Remotely

Privacy; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave 12 weeks

Sabbatical 4 weeks

Work From Anywhere 4 weeks/year

3% cashback on card purchases

Health, vision, dental insurance

HSA Contribution Match

401(k) match

Life Insurance and STD/LTD

Job summary

Privacy.com is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to scale for growth, balancing hands-on coding with technical leadership. You’ll master card payments, tackle distributed systems challenges at scale, and shape architecture decisions while mentoring engineers.

The distributed team spans the US and Europe, with a stack centered on NodeJS, DocumentDB, and AWS. You will influence roadmap and deliver secure, reliable systems while collaborating with product and cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience shipping code in a fast paced production environment.
• Experience building event-based and advanced distributed systems.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for your work.
• Technical lead for a small team.
• Experience mentoring and coaching other engineers on distributed systems patterns and best practices.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams (designers, PMs, operations).
• Excellent communication skills and enthusiasm for learning.

Responsibilities

• Ensure high reliability and correctness for Privacy.com card processing.
• Understand the challenges of the current system and propose step function changes to future architecture.
• Drive large multi-month initiatives and roadmap.
• Ensure that the team is delivering reliable, secure, and scalable code.
• Lead efforts to improve system and processes within the team and across engineering.
• Help drive strategic planning in collaboration with engineering, product, and cross-functional leaders.
• Make tradeoffs between long term investment and delivering on immediate product value.
• Participate in team on-call rotations.

Skills

Distributed systems

Event-driven architecture

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Communication

Team leadership

Tools

NodeJS

AWS

DocumentDB

Job description

Privacy.com is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to scale for growth, balancing hands-on coding with technical leadership. You’ll master card payments, tackle distributed systems challenges at scale, and shape architecture decisions while mentoring engineers.

The distributed team spans the US and Europe, with a stack centered on NodeJS, DocumentDB, and AWS. You will influence roadmap and deliver secure, reliable systems while collaborating with product and cross-functional partners.