We're working with a high growth AI company who is building a payment platform that supports dramatically high volume transactions and now needs the infrastructure to match.
Responsibilities- Automate payout orchestration to eliminate manual, human triggered workflows
- Build an immutable, auditable operational ledger
- Design settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines
- Improve observability across the full payout to processor to bank flow
- Fix recurring payment bugs at the root cause
- Reduce manual treasury overhead
- Abstract processor dependencies to avoid vendor lock in
Requirements- 5+ years building scalable backend systems, ideally in payments, fintech, billing, or financial infrastructure
- 3+ years owning production backend or platform systems
- Direct experience integrating with payment gateways (Stripe, Adyen, or similar) and/or banking APIs
- Familiarity with PCI DSS compliance and secure handling of sensitive financial data
- Strong experience working with transactional databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Familiarity with message queues, streaming platforms, and distributed systems tools such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Temporal, or Kubernetes
- Python proficiency
- Systems thinker who prioritizes reliability, observability, and automation over workarounds
