Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Weave seeks a Staff Backend Engineer to own and evolve the payments platform. You will design high‑scale microservices, lead cross‑team initiatives, and mentor engineers while ensuring reliability and performance.

Role Snapshot

• Lead design of high‑scale payment microservices
• Drive multi‑team, multi‑quarter engineering projects
• Mentor engineers across squads
• Own reliability, performance, and cost‑efficiency of payment systems
• Architect cloud‑native backend infrastructure

Must-Have Requirements

• Golang (or Java, Python, Ruby, C#)
• Microservices architecture
• Distributed systems design
• REST & gRPC APIs
• Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Kubernetes
• Terraform / Helm
• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable)
• backend engineering
• scalable distributed systems
• cloud‑native microservices
• background check

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Payments integration experience (Stripe, Braintree)
• Payments industry knowledge
• Message queues (Kafka, NSQ)
• Functional/acceptance testing
• payments systems
• GCP deployment
• Payments
• Fintech

Work Setup

• Location: United States
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: COUNTRY_RESTRICTED
• Remote countries: United States
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Visa sponsorship: unknown
• Background check: required

Not Specified in JD

• Salary range
• Visa sponsorship
• Relocation
• Travel
• Security clearance
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services for payments
• Lead large, strategic projects that span multiple teams and quarters
• Improve system reliability, availability, and fault tolerance
• Optimize performance and reduce operational costs of payment processing
• Mentor and coach engineers, raising code‑quality and testing standards
• Drive technical migrations with clear rollout and rollback plans
• Define monitoring, alerting, and incident‑response frameworks
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and security stakeholders

Good Fit If You Have

• Experience building integrated payments solutions (e.g., Stripe, Braintree)
• Familiarity with the payments industry and fintech ecosystems
• Hands‑on experience deploying to GCP or other public clouds
• Proficiency with protobuf/gRPC and service monitoring tools