Senior Staff Engineer - Merchant

Requirements

• Experience operating at Staff Engineer level or equivalent scope, owning large, ambiguous problem spaces and delivering measurable business impact
• Strong track record of leading complex, cross-team initiatives in distributed systems environments
• Deep expertise in system design and scaling backend services for reliability and performance
• Experience working in fast-paced, product-driven environment, balancing speed with long-term quality
• A pragmatic, impact-oriented mindset with a bias for action and simple, effective solutions
• Ability to influence and align stakeholders through clear communication and technical leadership
• Experience mentoring engineers, and contributing to a culture of continuous learning and improvement

Nice to Haves

• Experience in retail, e-commerce, or marketplace platforms
• Expertise in one or more backend languages (e.g. Go, Kotlin)
• Background working with data-intensive systems, experimentation, or analytics to inform and validate product and technical decisions for B2B/merchant use cases

What you'll be doing

• Leading complex initiatives that span multiple services and org boundaries, partnering deeply with product and business stakeholders to ensure solutions deliver measurable impact
• Designing and evolving scalable distributed systems, balancing speed, quality and long-term maintainability
• Identifying and delivering AI opportunities in our products, and champion AI-enabled tooling and practices that increase productivity and improve decision quality across individuals and teams
• Navigating ambiguity and driving clarity and execution in a fast-changing business environment
• Improving system reliability and operational excellence, proactively addressing bottlenecks and failure modes
• Communicating complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, building alignment in situations with many unknowns and constraints
• Mentor engineers in their career as well as help define our engineering culture and best practices

Perks and Benefits

• Great learning and growth opportunities
• Challenging and exciting work environment
• Opportunity to work on high-impact initiatives end-to-end
• Collaboration with diverse teams