Staff Software Engineer – Fintech

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership, develop, and manage a technically intricate FinTech system along with its unique technical strategy.

• Lead the design specifications, architecture, implementation, and operational activities.

• Utilize domain knowledge across product information, pricing, orders, subscriptions, fulfillment, usage, and financial transactions.

• Create subscription and usage-based commerce functionalities, which encompass metering, token consumption, billing, and settlement.

• Make impactful decisions regarding what to develop, scale, or phase out in the face of uncertain challenges.

• Enhance the revenue lifecycle comprehensively across ownership boundaries.

• Detect significant issues and construct solutions using AI agents and enterprise-approved tools.

• Employ specification-driven development to outline business rules, system behaviors, edge cases, and acceptance criteria.

• Design systems ensuring financial correctness, data integrity, auditability, and resilient operations.

• Equip systems for adoption, usage, reliability, and financial precision.

• Collaborate with Product, Finance, Compliance, Operations, Commercial, and engineering teams.

• Execute financial controls and traceability to support auditability, revenue recognition, taxation, and compliance.

• Develop platform capabilities for trustworthy financial experiences.

• Guide engineers on architecture, domain trade-offs, validation, and production risks.

• Identify and mitigate financial inaccuracies, data loss, security vulnerabilities, and AI-specific risks prior to release.

• Spearhead discovery, spikes, prototypes, proofs of concept, and robust production deployments.

• Compose clear documentation for teams utilizing the systems.

• Present technical guidance to engineering and product stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Significant hands-on experience in building and operating production systems across two or three FinTech domains: PIM, CPQ, O2C, FEM, FX, or reconciliation and settlement.

• Familiarity with payments, subscriptions, revenue recognition, and/or financial reconciliation.

• Experience with managing subscription lifecycles, usage-based consumption, pricing models, and billing processes.

• Capability to implement financial controls and auditable workflows in collaboration with Finance and Compliance teams.

• Proficient in translating domain rules into clear specifications and testable system behaviors, including failure scenarios and financial edge cases.

• Comprehension of upstream and downstream impacts across financial records, customer access, and operational workflows.

• Experience in mentoring Software Engineers to take ownership of highly complex systems.

• Knowledge in applying techniques from research or external sources through prototypes, proofs of concept, and stable production rollouts.

• Awareness of AI capabilities and their limitations.

• Proficiency with enterprise-approved AI tools, including Claude.

• Understanding of data classification and privacy principles related to AI systems.

• Knowledge of responsible AI, including bias mitigation, fairness, and transparency.

• Advanced proficiency in prompting techniques, such as multi-turn context setting, chain-of-thought elicitation, structured output enforcement, and iterative refinement.

• Ability to develop and manage evaluation and validation frameworks for AI-assisted or AI-native systems.

• Skill in scrutinizing agent-generated code within highly complex systems.

• Ability to monitor AI-specific vulnerabilities and keep up with evolving state-of-the-art techniques.

• Must possess a valid right to work in the United States.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary package.

• Opportunity for an annual bonus.

• Employee stock options.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• 401(k) retirement plan with employer matching.

• Flexible paid time off.

• Paid time for volunteering.

• Wellness programs and employee assistance resources.

• Ongoing learning and development opportunities.

• Dedicated resources for professional development.

• Collaborative remote-first work culture.

• Access to innovative technologies and AI-powered learning tools.

• Employer-paid life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.

• Flexible Open PTO.

• Paid sick leave.

• Paid parental leave.

• RTD EcoPass for eligible Colorado-based employees.

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).