Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

Senior Backend Engineer (Go)Payment Infrastructure / Orchestration PlatformSan Francisco / Hybrid$180,000 to $240,000 + EquityWe are partnered with a VC backed payment infrastructure startup building modern payment orchestration technology for global merchants.Their platform helps enterprise businesses optimise payment routing, improve transaction approval rates and manage multiple PSP integrations through a single infrastructure layer.Following significant growth and customer expansion, they are now scaling their platform engineering team in San Francisco.You will help build highly scalable payment infrastructure powering transaction routing, payment orchestration and merchant payment optimisation globally.This role is focused on:distributed systemsAPIspayment infrastructureplatform scalabilityreliability engineeringResponsibilitiesDesign and build scalable backend payment infrastructureDevelop APIs and backend payment servicesImprove payment routing and orchestration logicBuild highly reliable distributed systemsImprove platform performance and observabilitySupport multi PSP integrationsWork closely with DevOps and platform teamsContribute to infrastructure scalability and resilienceRequirementsStrong commercial Go experienceExperience building scalable distributed systemsStrong API development experienceCloud infrastructure experience (AWS or GCP)Experience with Kubernetes and containerised environmentsStrong understanding of platform reliability and scalabilityExperience working within high growth engineering environmentsNice To HavePayments or fintech experiencePayment orchestration exposureTransaction processing experienceKafka or event driven architecture experiencePCI or payment compliance exposureExperience with high availability systems