Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Weave

Staff Software Engineer leading complex backend engineering projects for Weave's payment software solutions. Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to innovate on payment processing and infrastructure.

Posted 5/16/2026full-timeUtah • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGRPCJavaKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesMySQLPostgresPythonRubyTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Architect & Lead: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Golang microservices in a cloud-native environment.
Solve Complex Challenges: Address large, open-ended engineering problems such as reducing operational costs, optimizing system performance, and improving payment processing efficiency.
Drive Multi-Team & Multi-Quarter Initiatives: Lead large, strategic engineering projects that impact multiple teams and require deep expertise in distributed systems, API design, and database optimization.
Improve System Reliability & Scalability: Ensure our payment systems are resilient, highly available, and fault-tolerant, leveraging best practices in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and alerting.
Optimization & Performance: Identify inefficiencies in our systems, propose solutions, and execute cost-saving and performance-enhancing initiatives in collaboration with engineering leadership.
Foster Engineering Excellence: Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, sharing best practices and driving improvements in code quality, testing, and deployment.
Lead Migrations & Technical Transitions: Spearhead critical system migrations, ensuring smooth rollouts with incremental adoption, rollback strategies, and clear communication across teams.
Collaborate & Align Stakeholders: Work closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams to align technical strategies with business objectives and ensure smooth execution.
Ensure Operational Readiness: Define monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies to maintain system stability and performance.
Champion Technical Strategy: Provide thought leadership on backend architecture, microservices best practices, and emerging technologies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, or similar languages.
Strong experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems with microservices architecture.
Proficiency in inter-service communication protocols (REST, gRPC, protobufs, message queues like NSQ, Kafka, or similar).
Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and optimization strategies.
Strong experience in cloud environments (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable).
Deep understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale projects across multiple teams with clear communication, stakeholder alignment, and strategic decision-making.
Experience leading technical migrations, ensuring smooth transitions with minimal disruption.
Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent within and across teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

This position will be available for remote with an opportunity to work in office if located near the Lehi, UT Headquarters.
Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

GolangJavaPythonRubyC#microservices architectureRESTgRPCPostgreSQLMySQL

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationstakeholder alignmentstrategic decision-makinganalytical skillsproblem-solvingcollaborationleadershipcoachingdriving improvements