Financial Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title

We're working with a high growth AI company who is building a payment platform that supports dramatically high volume transactions and now needs the infrastructure to match.

Responsibilities

Automate payout orchestration to eliminate manual, human triggered workflows

Build an immutable, auditable operational ledger

Design settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines

Improve observability across the full payout to processor to bank flow

Fix recurring payment bugs at the root cause

Reduce manual treasury overhead

Abstract processor dependencies to avoid vendor lock in

Requirements

5+ years building scalable backend systems, ideally in payments, fintech, billing, or financial infrastructure

3+ years owning production backend or platform systems

Direct experience integrating with payment gateways (Stripe, Adyen, or similar) and/or banking APIs

Familiarity with PCI DSS compliance and secure handling of sensitive financial data

Strong experience working with transactional databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL

Familiarity with message queues, streaming platforms, and distributed systems tools such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Temporal, or Kubernetes

Python proficiency

Systems thinker who prioritizes reliability, observability, and automation over workarounds