Senior Software Engineer (Payments)
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to the critical nature of the role within a lucrative industry, competitive necessary skills, and significant responsibilities.
- Critical role in a growing fintech company
- Need for skills in high-availability payment systems
- Opportunities in innovation and complex problem solving
Pros
- High impact role in a thriving fintech environment
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology for payment systems
- Strong demand for skills in backend development and payment systems
Cons
- High-pressure environment with 24/7 system availability
- Possibly long hours due to critical system demands
- Expectations for constant innovation can be intense
Who it's for
Senior / Experienced • On-site/Hybrid
Good fit
- Seasoned software engineers with backend expertise
- Professionals excited about fintech and payments
- Candidates wanting to work in fast-paced, impactful roles
Not recommended for
- New graduates or junior developers
- Individuals seeking stable 9-5 work hours
- Candidates adverse to high-pressure environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Join a global leader in ticketing and events set to revolutionalize a 100-billion-dollar industry.
You will be part of a small cross functional squad developing services while ensuring reliability and security across public facing payments systems.
24/7 availability of their payment systems is critical with customers using over 40 payment types and 100 different currencies across time zones. Along with your team, you will be responsible for building and supporting internal and external API integrations for customers as well as systems to accept and disburse payments. In addition, you will be developing and implementing complex fraud detection tools while exploring AI algorithms to enhance security and drive compliance.
Scaling these processes across an international, highly available platform while ensuring the safety of their existing infrastructure is one of the most critical activities within the engineering team.
While you will be working in a Microsoft orientated environment, the right person, first and foremost should be solution led valuing outcomes over outputs. Individually the engineers are skilled in .NET, JavaScript, Java, Go, Python and Scala but collectively they are dedicated to their mission of creating exceptional customer experience at all levels of the stack.
About you
- Deep level of experience across backend engineering in any language
- An understanding of automated fraud detection systems
- Experience developing and deploying changes that will remain performant under traffic
- Background developing critical highly available payment systems
- A drive to solve business challenges with technology
