[Remote] Staff Software Engineer, Payments
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Weave is on a mission to elevate the patient experience by providing healthcare practices with essential tools. As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Payments Team, you will lead complex projects, drive architectural decisions, and solve challenging technical problems in Weave's payments platform.
Responsibilities
- Architect & Lead: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Golang microservices in a cloud-native environment
- Solve Complex Challenges: Address large, open-ended engineering problems such as reducing operational costs, optimizing system performance, and improving payment processing efficiency
- Drive Multi-Team & Multi-Quarter Initiatives: Lead large, strategic engineering projects that impact multiple teams and require deep expertise in distributed systems, API design, and database optimization
- Improve System Reliability & Scalability: Ensure our payment systems are resilient, highly available, and fault-tolerant, leveraging best practices in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and alerting
- Optimization & Performance: Identify inefficiencies in our systems, propose solutions, and execute cost-saving and performance-enhancing initiatives in collaboration with engineering leadership
- Foster Engineering Excellence: Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, sharing best practices and driving improvements in code quality, testing, and deployment
- Lead Migrations & Technical Transitions: Spearhead critical system migrations, ensuring smooth rollouts with incremental adoption, rollback strategies, and clear communication across teams
- Collaborate & Align Stakeholders: Work closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams to align technical strategies with business objectives and ensure smooth execution
- Ensure Operational Readiness: Define monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies to maintain system stability and performance
- Champion Technical Strategy: Provide thought leadership on backend architecture, microservices best practices, and emerging technologies
Skills
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, or similar languages
- Strong experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems with microservices architecture
- Proficiency in inter-service communication protocols (REST, gRPC, protobufs, message queues like NSQ, Kafka, or similar)
- Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and optimization strategies
- Strong experience in cloud environments (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable)
- Deep understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale projects across multiple teams with clear communication, stakeholder alignment, and strategic decision-making
- Experience leading technical migrations, ensuring smooth transitions with minimal disruption
- Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making
- Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent within and across teams
- Experience with building and architecting systems around integrated Payments solutions (e.g. Stripe, Braintree, etc.), or with other fintech and financial systems
- Knowledge of payments industry
- Deploying into a public cloud service (especially GCP)
- Experience with protobufs/gRPC
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant service
- Experience with breaking up monolithic applications into microservices
- Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
- Experience with functional/acceptance testing
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