- Company Name
- ArrowCore Group
- Job Title
- Software Engineer, Payments (Backend/Platform)
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Software Engineer, Payments (Backend/Platform)
**Role Summary**
Design, develop, and scale core payment infrastructure for global financial operations. Collaborate with engineering, finance, and product teams to build reliable, observable, and AI‑enhanced payment systems while owning end‑to‑end lifecycle of offline payments.
**Expectations**
- Ownership mindset: build and operate shipped services.
- Bias for action with iterative, measurable delivery.
- High standards for correctness and data integrity.
- Calm, methodical response to incidents and continuous improvement.
- Clear communication across technical and business stakeholders.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Architect and implement scalable backend payment platforms (microservices, APIs, async queues/streams).
- Redesign reconciliation platform from 0 to 1 with AI‑first approach.
- Integrate AI agents and workflow orchestration engines for automation and human‑in‑the‑loop processes.
- Ensure reliability, observability, and operational reporting (metrics, logs, tracing).
- Apply software engineering best practices: version control, testing, CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes.
- Work with internal/external stakeholders to identify pain points, propose solutions, and ship features.
**Required Skills**
- 5+ years backend development experience at scale.
- Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go, Python, C# or equivalent; strong fundamentals.
- Design and operation of distributed systems (microservices, asynchronous processing).
- Reliability engineering expertise (idempotency, retries, consistency, failure analysis).
- Advanced SQL and data modeling for integrity and auditability.
- Production experience with containers, CI/CD pipelines, and Kubernetes or similar orchestration.
- Strong observability implementation (metrics, logs, distributed tracing).
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.