Staff Software Engineer - Payments Platform

• Own end-to-end payment platform outcomes across key payment products, ensuring reliability, security, performance and resilience during peak trading periods.
• Lead the design and delivery of complex payment capabilities, making high-quality technical decisions that result in secure, scalable and maintainable solutions.
• Shape the technical direction and architecture of payment systems, working closely with architects and engineering leaders to align with business and technology strategy.
• Drive engineering excellence through DevOps, automation, operational improvements and incident management, reducing repeat failures and improving service performance.
• Mentor and support engineers through coaching, code reviews and knowledge sharing, helping to build strong payment domain expertise across the engineering community.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience with Java preferred, alongside the ability to select the right technologies and approaches for complex business problems.
• Deep expertise operating large-scale cloud-based platforms and high-traffic applications, with experience across Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or equivalent.
• Experience implementing CI/CD practices and modern DevOps tooling, ideally including GitHub Actions and automated delivery pipelines.
• A passion for engineering quality, testing, mentoring others and driving continuous improvement across teams and platforms.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in leading the design and delivery of secure, scalable payment systems while driving engineering excellence through DevOps practices and mentoring. Proficient in managing large-scale cloud-based platforms and implementing CI/CD practices to enhance service performance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Java Software Engineering
• Cloud-Based Platform Expertise
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• CI/CD Implementation
• DevOps Practices

ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills

• Java
• Platform Engineering
• Cloud Computing
• DevOps
• CI/CD
• Automation
• Incident Management
• Observability
• Monitoring Tools
• Testing

Soft Skills

• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Knowledge Sharing

Industry Keywords

• Payment Systems
• Engineering Excellence
• Operational Improvements
• Service Performance
• High-Traffic Applications

Tools & Technologies

• Azure
• AWS
• GCP
• GitHub Actions
• Dynatrace