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Staff Software Engineer, Payments Orchestration: Transactions
BackendHybrid — San Francisco
Published on 2026-10-19
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About this role
Own the architecture, reliability, and production operations of Trustly’s Payments Orchestration: Transactions domain. You’ll take responsibility for payment APIs and transaction lifecycle coordination across account data, risk scoring, and bank rails, while helping build and lead the team.
About the company
Trustly is an open banking payments company that lets consumers pay and get paid directly from their bank accounts.
The team
Payments Orchestration: Transactions, within Engineering - AMER.
Stack
JavaClaude CodeCursorGitHub Copilot
What you'll do
- Own the architecture, service contracts, and production health of transaction orchestration services.
- Handle on-call, SLAs, incident response, and root-cause fixes.
- Improve service observability and production health quarter over quarter.
- Document the existing codebase through design docs, interface definitions, and runbooks.
- Coordinate knowledge transfer with engineers across the Americas and Europe.
- Guide AI-assisted implementation, review changes, and own integration testing.
- Help hire and shape the team responsible for the domain.
What we're looking for
- Typically 10+ years building and operating production software, including several years of staff-level system ownership.
- Hands-on experience with payments, banking, or other financial systems where correctness, auditability, and uptime are critical.
- Experience owning on-call systems and improving them based on production incidents.
- Ability to take ownership of an unfamiliar, business-critical codebase.
- Strong distributed-systems skills, including consistency, idempotency, and concurrency.
- Production experience with Java or a comparable backend language.
- Experience with transaction processing where correctness under concurrency and idempotency are critical.
- Daily use of AI coding tools and clear judgment about when human review is needed.
Nice to have
- Experience with ACH, RTP, FedNow, or open banking.
- Experience building a new engineering hub or leading a major platform transition.
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off and generous PTO accrual.
- Medical, dental, vision, and other insurance coverage.
- FSA and HSA plans for medical and dependent care.
- Home office setup allowance and internet stipend.
- 401(k) or RRSP match.
- Gender-neutral paid parental leave.