Senior Software Engineer – Backend – Card & Transaction Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Europe.

📋 Description

• Define, assess, and enhance SLOs/SLAs and error budgets for essential services.

• Advance and expand the platform to accommodate a growing customer base and increasing request volumes.

• Detect vulnerabilities, risky trends, and capacity constraints prior to their impact on customers.

• Engage in a compensated 24/7 on-call rotation and assist in leading incident response efforts.

• Manage mitigation, conduct blameless postmortems, and ensure follow-up after incidents.

• Oversee observability across dashboards, alerting, tracing, and logging utilizing Datadog.

• Propel performance enhancements across latency-sensitive pathways.

• Design, develop, and deploy product features comprehensively across Java/Spring Boot microservices.

• Address API design through to rollout.

• Balance the delivery of features with ongoing improvements.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to transform requirements into dependable, well-tested services.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in building and managing modern distributed backend services.

• Proficiency in the Java/Spring Boot technology stack.

• Familiarity with AWS cloud services, Kafka, and PostgreSQL.

• Proven history with high-availability systems and scaling systems under increasing loads.

• Proficient in a modern observability stack.

• Strong understanding of SLO/SLA concepts.

• Proactive ownership mentality.

• Capability to oversee features from design and implementation through testing and delivery.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience leveraging AI effectively as an engineering tool.

• Experience in payments, card issuing, or transaction processing is a plus.

• PCI DSS certification or experience operating within a PCI DSS environment is a plus.

• Experience in fraud detection or prevention is a plus.

• Knowledge in chaos/resilience testing, capacity planning, or load testing is a plus.

• Familiarity with safe deployment practices such as canary, blue/green, or progressive rollouts is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Choice of preferred operating system: Windows or Mac.

• Opportunity to cultivate your skills within a dynamic team with ambitious objectives.

• Flexibility and the option to work remotely.

• Pliant Card with monthly credit to explore the product and enjoy meals with colleagues.

• Fair compensation for participation in the 24/7 on-call rotation.