weave - Staff Software Engineer, Payments

• 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. • What You Will Need to Accomplish the Job • 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. • What Will Make Us Love You • 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)