Senior/Staff Engineer
Senior/Staff Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA or New York, NY
Compensation: $200,000 – $280,000 + 0.4% – 0.8% Equity
Type: Full-Time
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT
Priority: High (Hiring Multiple)
About the Company
Client is building global payments infrastructure for the future of work, currently moving $1.5B/year to over 1M payees. The company focuses on high-scale, high-throughput backend systems to enable seamless payments and gig worker payouts.
Company culture emphasizes:
- High autonomy and ownership
- Iterative, high-velocity product development
- Collaboration with highly skilled engineers
- Building systems that handle large amounts of financial data reliably
About the Role — Senior/Staff Engineer
As a Senior/Staff Engineer, you will design, build, and scale production-ready backend systems that process high volumes of data for global payments. You’ll contribute across the stack, collaborate with product and engineering leadership, and take ownership of major technical decisions.
This role is ideal for engineers who:
- Thrive in high-ambiguity, high-impact environments
- Enjoy building end-to-end systems with measurable outcomes
- Want to work on FinTech infrastructure at scale
- Are comfortable iterating quickly and shipping scrappy but robust systems
Tech Stack
- Frontend: React
- Backend: Python
- Infrastructure: AWS, ECS
- Tools: GitHub, Linear,
