Payoneer
Senior Staff Engineer
Overview
PAYO Digital Bank, N.A. (PDB), Payoneer's national trust bank subsidiary, is seeking a deeply experienced Senior Staff Engineer to serve as the technical anchor of the bank's engineering organization and the architect of record for its core transactional systems.
About Payoneer
Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.
Requirements & Eligibility
- 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years hands-on architecting high-integrity transactional systems
- Deep understanding of event-driven architecture, exactly-once processing semantics, idempotency, and reconciliation at scale
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, and multi-region deployment in a regulated or audited environment
- Track record designing immutable transaction logs, reconciliation controls, and automated evidence generation for examiners and external auditors
- Proven success elevating the technical output of senior engineers, setting architectural standards, and owning delivery end-to-end
- Ability to produce system architecture documentation that withstands intense regulatory and audit scrutiny
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and build the bank's core backend, including microservices, transactional persistence schemas, event messaging endpoints, and internal APIs
- Design the reconciliation architecture guaranteeing absolute consistency between the fiat subledger, reserve accounts, and on-chain token supply
- Serve as the technical lead and mentor for the Core Backend team, establishing standards for code reviews, testing, observability, and deployment
- Integrate automated sanctions screening connectors with auditable screening and case escalation hooks
- Partner with the SRE Lead on multi-region availability, failover targets, and real-time ledger alerting, and work with Security on IAM and key management
- Support UAT, feature freezes, and external control validation ahead of the pre-opening exam
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