Staff Software Engineer, Payments Acquiring

What you'll do

• Lead one or two complex acquiring projects from technical design through production rollout, including network and acquirer connections or network mandates.
• Build and operate payment systems and tooling; analyze payment messages and make data-backed decisions on routing, retries, reliability, and processing costs.
• Establish reusable standards and frameworks, mentor engineers, and share operational responsibility for critical systems, including on-call and incident response.

What they ask for

• Deep card-payment integration experience at the message level, such as ISO 8583 or an acquirer’s host format—not only payment-provider APIs.
• Hands-on experience building and operating reliable financial or payment systems at scale, and leading technically complex projects from design through delivery.
• Experience creating technical frameworks, standards, tooling, architecture, or practices adopted by other engineers or teams.
• Daily experience building with AI coding agents; willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

Nice to have

• Acquiring or merchant-side experience; direct network connection experience is a strong plus.
• ISO 20022 experience.

Pay

$263,600 — $395,400 USD (base salary, Zone A); $263,600 — $395,400 USD (base salary, Zone B); $263,600 — $395,400 USD (base salary, Zone C); $263,600 — $395,400 USD (base salary, Zone D)

Tools

ISO 8583, ISO 20022, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover

AI focus

Build with AI agents across the engineering lifecycle and help establish safe-use patterns for systems that move money; daily experience with AI coding agents is required.