Senior Software Engineer - Protection
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About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Protection to build and scale core backend systems powering global payment infrastructure. You will lead the design and development of distributed, high-performance services with a focus on reliability, scalability, and security.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of core backend services powering distributed, high performance systems with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and security
- Own critical technical decisions across system architecture, ensuring solutions are built for long term scale and operational excellence
- Develop clean, well tested, and maintainable code while applying modern engineering practices such as TDD and BDD where appropriate
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and cross functional teams in a fast paced, product led environment to deliver impactful features
- Conduct thorough code reviews and continuously improve engineering standards, development workflows, and system robustness
- Produce clear and comprehensive technical documentation to support system understanding and team alignment
Requirements
- Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining complex backend systems in distributed environments with high performance requirements
- Deep understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production operations
- Experience building developer facing frameworks, APIs, or integration tools that simplify adoption for internal or external users
- Proficiency in Python is a strong advantage, though adaptability across modern backend languages is expected
- Solid understanding of system reliability, scalability patterns, and production grade engineering best practices
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively in remote, cross functional teams
- Prior exposure to payments systems or financial infrastructure is highly valuable
- Self driven mindset with the ability to work autonomously and take full ownership of complex technical problems
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Role Overview
- This is a high impact backend engineering role focused on building and scaling the core systems that power global payment infrastructure. You will work on highly distributed, performance critical services that require strong reliability, security, and scalability by design. The role sits at the hear
Accountabilities
- Lead the design and development of core backend services powering distributed, high performance systems with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and security.
- Own critical technical decisions across system architecture, ensuring solutions are built for long term scale and operational excellence.
- Develop clean, well tested, and maintainable code while applying modern engineering practices such as TDD and BDD where appropriate.
- Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and cross functional teams in a fast paced, product led environment to deliver impactful features.
- Conduct thorough code reviews and continuously improve engineering standards, development workflows, and system robustness.
- Produce clear and comprehensive technical documentation to support system understanding and team alignment.
Requirements
- Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining complex backend systems in distributed environments with high performance requirements.
- Deep understanding of the full software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, and production operations.
- Experience building developer facing frameworks, APIs, or integration tools that simplify adoption for internal or external users.
- Proficiency in Python is a strong advantage, though adaptability across modern backend languages is expected.
- Solid understanding of system reliability, scalability patterns, and production grade engineering best practices.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively in remote, cross functional teams.
- Prior exposure to payments systems or financial infrastructure is highly valuable, with a strong focus on merchant or developer experience.
- Self driven mindset with the ability to work autonomously and take full ownership of complex technical problems.
Benefits
- Fully remote first environment with global collaboration and flexibility.
- Competitive compensation package including equity or share based incentives.
- Unlimited holiday policy with a generous minimum allowance.
- Private medical insurance coverage.
- Annual workations and company wide retreats.
- Co working space access worldwide.
- Budget for home office setup and high quality engineering equipment.
- Dedicated learning and development budget to support continuous growth.
- Additional location dependent perks and benefits.
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