Staff Software Engineer - Europe

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including operating as a technical lead on a product engineering team.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems (four 9s) in production—understands the reliability and correctness bar required for critical infrastructure.
• Demonstrated track record of effective delegation—has scaled their impact by enabling senior engineers to own technical direction, not by doing everything themselves.
• Strong product engineering instinct—can take a product strategy and translate it into a crisp engineering roadmap with clear scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems in production.

Nice to haves

• Payments domain experience—has worked in payments infrastructure, processing, or a related domain.
• Experience working across time zones with distributed engineering teams.
• Fintech or financial infrastructure experience beyond payments (e.g., credit, lending, identity).
• Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area, translating product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps with crisp scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Stay hands-on—owning high-leverage projects, spiking and prototyping to de-risk, or going deep on the hardest parts of projects others own, depending on the quarter.
• Own technical excellence for the team—setting and holding a high bar through design reviews, architectural decisions, and code quality.
• Partner closely with the EM and PM to identify opportunities, make tradeoffs, and keep the team focused on the highest-leverage work.
• Maintain a strong connection to US engineering and platform teams, ensuring Europe's requirements shape platform decisions and the team leverages shared infrastructure rather than building in isolation.

Perks and Benefits