Staff Software Engineer, Payments & Trust
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What You’ll Do
Define and lead the technical direction for payment processing, fraud prevention, and financial-data platforms.
You’ll ship complex and detail-focused projects by collaborating with fellow Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and representatives from Support and Finance.
Build features at scale, shipping robust platforms that process millions of transactions.
Understand our customers’ success and the health of our systems through monitoring and data analytics.
Engage with world-class infrastructure and experiment with modern AI tools to multiply engineering effectiveness.
Grow via mentorship, collaboration, and learning activities.
Participate in the shaping of Lime's Engineering culture.
Participate in the team's on-call rotation, responding to incidents, troubleshooting issues, and contributing to root cause analysis and service reliability improvements.
Respond to and troubleshoot production issues, outages, and critical alerts during assigned on-call shifts.
Escalate incidents as needed and collaborate with team members to restore service.
Document issues and contribute to improvements that reduce recurring incidents.
Be available to provide occasional after-hours, weekend, and holiday support while on call.
About You
8+ years of professional software development experience, and a track record of building impactful products or systems.
Domain: You’ve shipped software and solved problems at scale in the payment processing, accounting, or fraud mitigation spaces.
Owner's mindset: you're focused on outcomes and can solve problems to get there.
Team leader: you are able to deliver large outcomes through the work of many engineers.
Data driven: You instrument your work for decision making, you can reason through data to learn from our customers.
Excellent communication skills and effective management of competing priorities.
Customer focused: you’ve done the work to understand and solve customer problems, you’ve shipped software to avoid them.
Ability to participate in a shared on-call rotation supporting production systems, including occasional after-hours, weekend, and holiday coverage, with responsibility for responding to critical alerts, coordinating escalations to restore service, and documenting issues to help prevent recurrence.
Preferred Experience :
You bring a learning mindset to the use of AI tools for software development and level up your peers through teaching.
You’re enthusiastic about Lime's mission and micromobility; you want to see cities transform to become people-centric and less polluted.
The base salary range listed reflects what Lime reasonably expects to offer for this role, with the final base salary determined by objective factors such as the candidate’s location and relevant skills and experience. Depending on the position, the total compensation package may also include discretionary annual performance bonus opportunities and equity, subject to applicable plan terms and eligibility requirements.
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If you want to make an impact, Lime is the place for you. Not sure if you meet all the qualifications? If this role excites you we encourage you to apply. Explore all opportunities on our career page.
Lime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more. That’s why we’re dedicated to building and developing a team that reflects a wider range of backgrounds, abilities, identities, and experiences. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or hiring process, please email recruiting-operations@li.me for assistance.
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