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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading the architecture and execution of highly available distributed payment systems, ensuring compliance, security, and performance while mentoring engineering talent and managing cross-functional relationships.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Payment Processing ArchitectureCloud-Native ArchitectureDevOps and CI/CDPayment Lifecycle ManagementEngineering Leadership
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Hard Skills
Software EngineeringMicroservicesAPIsEvent-Driven SystemsPayment RoutingTokenizationPCI DSS ComplianceOperational ExcellenceScalability OptimizationFault Tolerance
Soft Skills
Cross-Functional CollaborationMentoringTechnical OwnershipOperational ImprovementStakeholder Relationship Management
Tools & Technologies
Cloud InfrastructureAutomation ToolsTelemetry SystemsObservability ToolsPayment Gateways
Industry Keywords
FintechTransaction-Intensive EnvironmentsDigital AccessibilityWCAG 2.2 AA Standards
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesCloudMicroservices
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead platform-level execution for highly available, distributed payment systems aligned with business priorities and roadmap milestones
- Drive architecture for payment processing, transaction routing, authorization, retries, reversals, fallback, and resiliency
- Oversee cloud infrastructure, shared tooling, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, telemetry, and production readiness across multiple teams
- Partner with product, architecture, security, operations, and payment stakeholders to deliver complex initiatives while meeting compliance and certification requirements
- Guide architectural decisions for scalability, fault tolerance, performance, security, and cost optimization
- Mentor engineers, strengthen technical ownership, lead operational improvements, and establish metrics for availability, transaction success, latency, recovery, and platform health
- Develop engineering talent and manage cross-functional stakeholder relationships
- Ensure payment solutions meet scalability, security, compliance, performance, and reliability expectations
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, computer information systems, software engineering, or related area and 5 years’ experience in software engineering or related area; OR 7 years’ experience in software engineering or related area
- 2 years’ supervisory experience
- Proven engineering leadership experience delivering large-scale, highly available distributed platforms in payments, fintech, retail, or transaction-intensive environments
- Strong understanding of the payment lifecycle, including authorization, capture, reversal, refund, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling
- Experience with payment routing, orchestration, failover, idempotency, gateways, processors, acquirers, issuers, card networks, tokenization, and PCI DSS
- Deep knowledge of cloud-native architecture, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, DevOps, CI/CD, observability, and operational excellence
- Demonstrated ability to guide architecture, manage production incidents, optimize cloud costs, mentor engineers, and enforce security and quality standards
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across product, business, compliance, security, operations, and external payment partners in complex, regulated environments
- Preferred: Master’s degree in a related field and 3 years' experience in software engineering or related area
- Preferred: Knowledge of WCAG 2.2 AA standards, assistive technologies, and digital accessibility best practices
Benefits
Comp & perks- Incentive awards for performance
- 401(k) match
- Stock purchase plan
- Paid maternity and parental leave
- PTO, including sick leave
- Multiple health plans, including medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Company-paid life insurance
- Family care leave
- Bereavement leave
- Jury duty leave
- Voting leave
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Company discounts
- Military Leave Pay
- Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
- Live Better U Walmart-paid education benefit, including tuition, books, and fees
- English Language Learning and short-form certificate programs
- Flexible use of PTO and/or PPTO for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
- Performance-based bonus awards
- Stock may be included as additional compensation