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