Sr Software Engineer Backend - Order Platform

What The Candidate Will Need / Bonus Points

---- What the Candidate Will Do ----

• Design, scale, code, monitor, and maintain a highly critical set of services.
• Contribute to, lead, own, and deliver complex projects or features.
• Recruit, onboard, and proactively mentor engineers.
• Serve as an escalation point for other engineers to troubleshoot and manage severe incidents in production; encourage the adoption of best practices in incident management within the team.
  
  

• MS/BS in Computer Science or a related field, with at least 6 years of individual contributor experience as a software engineer.
• Fluent in Go, Java, or C++.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture - including concepts like consensus, convergence, load balancing, data consistency, and performance/efficiency.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, to articulate complex ideas to engineering teams.
• Experience being on-call and handling operational issues for a system serving production traffic.
  
  

• Prior experience in fintech or payments.
• Prior experience with Go.
• Proven ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues.
• Experience as a tech lead who has mentored or led small teams in building product features at scale.