Staff Software Engineer - Payments

About the Team The Tax Payment team is powering the tax remittance of $30 billion+ to 5000+ tax agencies. We ensure taxes are paid on the t... requirements. We've built intelligent engine to plan the tax remittance to maximize the float income and remitt taxes to 5000+ tax authorities without minimal manual intervention while maintaining strict compliance and audit requirements. We're a mission-critical team where reliability is paramount - every line of code directly impacts people's livelihoods. We solve fascinating problems at the intersection of financial systems, international compliance, and large-scale automation, building fault-tolerant pipelines that handle complex scenarios while scaling globally. Key Responsibilities Lead the Architecture and Development: Design and evolve the core tax remittance product that moves $30B+ across 40+ countries and 5000+ tax agencies, with reliability and correctness as first principles. Own Tax Remittance Pipelines: Architect and build end-to-end pipelines that orchestrate the full lifecycle of tax payments — from salary payout to agency remittance and refunds — ensuring payments are timely, accurate, auditable, and compliant. Scale Distributed Payment Systems: Develop and optimize distributed systems that handle high-throughput, multi-currency tax remittances, agency cut-offs, retries, reconciliation, and failure recovery at global scale. Drive Technical Excellence: Set the bar for reliability, observability, security, and regulatory/audit readiness in a mission-critical domain where every deployment impacts people’s livelihoods. Cross-Team & External Collaboration: Partner closely with Payroll, Banking, Finance Ops, Compliance, and external payment partners/tax agencies to define roadmaps, de-risk launches, and unlock new geographies and products. Mentor and Influence: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers across the org, influencing architecture, design reviews, and operational practices to build a high-performance, ownership-driven culture. Qualifications Experience: 9+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a role leading architecture, designing consumer facing products and building systems. Technical Expertise: Strong proficiency in backend development, distributed systems, and large-scale data pipelines. Data Pipeline Experience: Hands-on experience with data processing frameworks Scalability and Performance: Deep knowledge of building and scaling real-time, high-throughput systems. Consumer-Facing Product Development: Experience working on consumer-grade applications with a focus on intuitive user experiences. Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and debugging skills with a passion for solving complex technical challenges. Communication: Ability to convey technical concepts to both engineering and non-engineering audiences effectively.