Financial Infrastructure Engineer

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