Staff Engineer - Fintech

Role overview Shape the engineering foundations for a team building payment integrations across providers and regions. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with tools and AI systems that help product engineers deliver consistent, reliable payment experiences. It has no direct reports; influence comes through architecture, shared standards, and coaching.

Responsibilities - Design and maintain engineering agents, skills, and context that encode architecture, review practices, and quality checks for payment work. - Develop an AI first-response system for payment support questions, with clear criteria for when a person should take over. - Lead difficult technical work, including migrations, broad refactoring, and long-term architectural decisions across payment provider integrations. - Keep integrations consistent as providers and regional requirements change, while enabling engineers to own and deliver their work. - Coach engineers and address recurring deviations by improving the underlying tools or practices.

Requirements - Hands-on experience integrating payment service providers or payment processors. - Strong engineering judgment, including the ability to distinguish reusable architectural standards from one-off solutions. - Experience building AI agents, skills, evaluations, or tools used by other engineers, and a clear understanding of where human oversight is essential. - A systems mindset that turns engineering lessons into reusable architecture and tooling. - Ability to influence and collaborate across engineering and product roles without relying on direct reporting lines.

Nice to have - Experience in hospitality, travel, or another operationally complex B2B software environment. - A record of sharing technical work publicly or coaching other engineers.

Benefits and work setup - Remote-first, flexible work, including the option to work abroad for a few weeks each year. - Home office budget and monthly work-from-home allowance; relocation options may be available after one year. - Additional benefits vary by location. The source lists compensation ranges for several countries, but does not establish which range applies to a particular candidate.