Senior Software Engineer, Payments/Fintech
About the job
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable systems for processing payments, scheduling payouts, and reconciling transactions.
• Ensure funds distribution happens on time and at scale, with strong SLAs and monitoring.
• Collaborate with Finance, Compliance, and Product teams to build features that meet regulatory, tax, and reporting requirements.
• Integrate with third-party payment processors, banks, and financial networks (ACH, wire transfers, card processors, digital wallets).
• Architect systems for auditability, security, and fault tolerance across distributed services.
• Implement and improve automated reconciliation, ledgering, and reporting pipelines.
• Lead technical discussions on scalability, reliability, and fraud prevention in payment systems.
• Work closely with first party and third party integrators, contribute to code reviews, and promote engineering best practices.
• Drive process improvements in CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and observability for financial workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building backend systems, with at least 2 years in a senior/lead capacity.
- Strong proficiency in C#, ASP.NET (Web API) and SQL Server.
- Hands-on experience with payment processing, banking integrations, or financial transaction systems.
- Deep understanding of databases and transactional integrity (SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, or NoSQL systems).
- Familiarity with event-driven architectures, queues, and schedulers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS/SNS, etc.).
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code.
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards for payments (PCI DSS, SOC 2, GDPR).
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, finance, and business teams.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- BONUS POINTS FOR:
- Experience with NodeJS, TypeScript and Angular.
- Experience with Mobile development (.NET MAUI, Objective-C, Android, etc.).
- Experience working with ACH, SEPA, card networks, or real-time payment rails.
- Background in ledgering systems, accounting workflows, or treasury operations.
- Familiarity with fraud detection and risk mitigation strategies.
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Hard Skills
- C#
- ASP.NET
- SQL Server
- payment processing
- banking integrations
- event-driven architectures
- cloud platforms
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- ledgering
Soft Skills
- strong communication skills
- collaboration
- leadership
- technical discussions
- process improvements
Certifications & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
- Master’s degree in Computer Science
