Transparent Search Group
Staff Software Engineer, Payments
Transparent Search Group, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About the job Staff Software Engineer, Payments
Job Title:
Staff Software Engineer, Payments (Hybrid)
Location:
New York (FiDi), Los Angeles (WeHo), San Francisco (Downtown), Toronto (North York/Downtown), Vancouver, Montreal Employment Type:
Full-Time (Hybrid: Mon-Thu in-office) Compensation:
$225,000-$300,000 salary
About the Role
We're looking for a
Senior Backend / Platform Engineer
to design, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers billions in payment volume with precision, speed, and resilience.
In this role, you'll work at the intersection of payments, accounting, and large-scale systems reconciling transactions across multiple financial providers, ensuring customer balances are perfectly aligned with bank records, and developing the general ledger systems that form the foundation of our financial platform.
You'll have ownership over high-impact backend and platform projects, from design through production operations, while mentoring a squad of talented engineers and collaborating closely with product and go-to-market teams.
Key Responsibilities
Transaction Reconciliation:
Lead efforts to reconcile payments across providers (Stripe, Highnote, Checkbook, JPMorgan) for perfect alignment between bank accounts and customer-facing balances. Ledger Infrastructure:
Contribute to the development and scalability of our general ledger systems to ensure accuracy, resilience, and growth. External Partnerships:
Work with our ledger provider, Fragment, to support billions of transactions with high integrity and speed. Money Movement Flows:
Design and implement new payment flows across a variety of payment rails including push-to-card, wire transfers, and more optimizing for
cost, speed, and reliability . System Architecture:
Scope, design, and deliver large, complex backend and platform projects end-to-end. Scalability & Reliability:
Build architecture capable of handling
billions in annual payment volume
and real-time risk controls. Product Collaboration:
Partner with product and GTM leads to turn ambiguous business needs into clean, efficient code. Mentorship:
Lead and mentor a squad of 3-4 engineers, driving code quality, velocity, and engineering best practices. What We're Looking For
6-15 years of experience building
B2B or B2C SaaS products
(fintech experience is a plus) Deep expertise in
backend systems ,
financial platforms , or
high-scale distributed systems Strong track record of owning projects from architecture to production Experience with
payment providers ,
ledger systems , or
transaction reconciliation Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise team performance
Job Title:
Staff Software Engineer, Payments (Hybrid)
Location:
New York (FiDi), Los Angeles (WeHo), San Francisco (Downtown), Toronto (North York/Downtown), Vancouver, Montreal Employment Type:
Full-Time (Hybrid: Mon-Thu in-office) Compensation:
$225,000-$300,000 salary
About the Role
We're looking for a
Senior Backend / Platform Engineer
to design, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers billions in payment volume with precision, speed, and resilience.
In this role, you'll work at the intersection of payments, accounting, and large-scale systems reconciling transactions across multiple financial providers, ensuring customer balances are perfectly aligned with bank records, and developing the general ledger systems that form the foundation of our financial platform.
You'll have ownership over high-impact backend and platform projects, from design through production operations, while mentoring a squad of talented engineers and collaborating closely with product and go-to-market teams.
Key Responsibilities
Transaction Reconciliation:
Lead efforts to reconcile payments across providers (Stripe, Highnote, Checkbook, JPMorgan) for perfect alignment between bank accounts and customer-facing balances. Ledger Infrastructure:
Contribute to the development and scalability of our general ledger systems to ensure accuracy, resilience, and growth. External Partnerships:
Work with our ledger provider, Fragment, to support billions of transactions with high integrity and speed. Money Movement Flows:
Design and implement new payment flows across a variety of payment rails including push-to-card, wire transfers, and more optimizing for
cost, speed, and reliability . System Architecture:
Scope, design, and deliver large, complex backend and platform projects end-to-end. Scalability & Reliability:
Build architecture capable of handling
billions in annual payment volume
and real-time risk controls. Product Collaboration:
Partner with product and GTM leads to turn ambiguous business needs into clean, efficient code. Mentorship:
Lead and mentor a squad of 3-4 engineers, driving code quality, velocity, and engineering best practices. What We're Looking For
6-15 years of experience building
B2B or B2C SaaS products
(fintech experience is a plus) Deep expertise in
backend systems ,
financial platforms , or
high-scale distributed systems Strong track record of owning projects from architecture to production Experience with
payment providers ,
ledger systems , or
transaction reconciliation Proven ability to mentor engineers and raise team performance