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What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and operate backend services that power subscription payments at a global scale.

• Implement/Maintain billing lifecycle, global payments, invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reliability—integrating with multiple providers (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree) and supporting international currencies and local methods.

• Modernize legacy systems and eliminate technical debt to improve velocity and scalability.

• Participate in the on-call rotation to support operational issues.

We’re Looking for Someone Who

• Has 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in building and scaling distributed systems for financial or mission-critical workloads.

• Brings a strong foundation in data modeling, transactional consistency, and high-throughput architectures, with hands-on SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and familiarity with NoSQL and caching.

• Has strong coding ability in Ruby with a focus on clean, maintainable, and secure code.

• Communicates clearly and collaborates across product, finance, risk, and platform teams

It’s a Plus If You

• Have deep experience designing and operating payment or billing systems

• Have integrated with major payment service providers (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, PayPal) and managed multi-currency or local payment methods.

Interview Process

• Silver Screening Interview.

• Silver Technical Interview.

• Client Technical Interview.

• Client Behavioral Interview.