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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in designing and leading large-scale distributed systems for financial transactions, with a strong focus on reliability, security, and performance optimization. Proficient in mentoring technical teams and driving cross-functional collaboration to achieve business and regulatory objectives.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Large-Scale Distributed Systems DesignMicroservices ArchitectureJava or Go ProficiencyKafka and Redis ExperienceCloud Platforms (GCP or AWS)
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Hard Skills
Distributed TransactionsReliability EngineeringObservabilityPerformance OptimizationLedger SystemsPayment NetworksReconciliationBatch ProcessingIdempotencyTransaction States
Soft Skills
Strong CommunicationInfluencing Technical Decisions
Tools & Technologies
KafkaRedisRelational DatabasesGCPAWS
Industry Keywords
BankingPaymentsE-WalletsRegulated Financial Environment
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKafkaMicroservicesRedisGo
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Define technical direction and architecture for ledger, account, and payment systems spanning several teams
- Lead design of fault-tolerant, consistent, and secure services and review critical designs
- Lead ledger architecture, including double-entry modeling, balance computation at scale, holds, reversals, and complete audit trails
- Set standards for correctness in money flows, including idempotency, transaction states, distributed transaction patterns, and safe handling of unknown results
- Design connectivity to banks and payment networks, including routing, failover, monitoring, and cut-off handling
- Design reconciliation, settlement, and end-of-day processing to identify and resolve differences at the root
- Design fraud and risk controls for real-time money flows
- Plan for peak load and failure scenarios and drive load testing, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
- Identify technical risks, evaluate trade-offs, and drive decisions aligned with business and regulatory needs
- Lead investigations and root cause analysis for complex production incidents and drive lasting improvements
- Establish engineering standards for reliability, observability, security, and performance
- Partner with Engineering Managers, Product, Finance, Risk, and Compliance on cross-team initiatives
- Mentor Senior Engineers and grow technical leadership
- Stay hands-on implementing critical components and solving complex problems
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Proven record of designing and running large-scale distributed systems handling money or other critical transactions
- Experience leading technical work across teams
- Highly proficient in Java, Go, or another modern backend language
- Strong expertise in microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed transactions, reliability engineering, observability, and performance optimization
- Strong working knowledge of ledgers, payment networks, bank integrations, reconciliation, and batch processing, or equivalent depth in large payment or e-wallet systems
- Deep practical experience with Kafka, Redis, and relational databases, including transactions, locking, query tuning, and data consistency
- Experience designing and operating applications on cloud platforms, including GCP or AWS
- Background in banking, payments, e-wallets, or another high-scale, regulated financial environment
- Strong communication and ability to influence technical decisions without direct authority
Benefits
Comp & perks- Performance Bonus - Get rewarded for the impact you make
- Private Insurance - Comprehensive health coverage for you
- Paid Time Off - Take the time you need to recharge and come back stronger
- Learning & Development - Company-sponsored training, courses, and professional certifications
- Hybrid Work Arrangement - Enjoy the flexibility of working both remotely and from the office
- Career Growth - Work closely with experienced leaders and take on meaningful ownership as we scale
- Employee Perks - Enjoy exclusive discounts, partnerships, and lifestyle perks
- Collaborative & High-Ownership Culture - Work with smart, driven people in cross-functional teams, take ownership, and make a meaningful impact for our users.