What the Candidate Will Need Bonus Points - What the Candidate Will Do - Design scale code monitor and maintain a highly critical set of services Contribute to lead own and deliver complex projects or features Recruit onboard and proactively mentor engineers Serve as an escalation point for other engineers to troubleshoot and manage severe incidents in production encourage the adoption of best practices in incident management within the team - Basic Qualifications - MS BS in Computer Science or a related field with at least 6 years of individual contributor experience as a software engineer Fluent in Go Java or C Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture - including concepts like consensus convergence load balancing data consistency and performance efficiency Robust communication skills both written and verbal to articulate complex ideas to engineering teams Experience being on-call and handling operational issues for a system serving production traffic - Preferred Qualifications - Prior experience in fintech or payments Prior experience with Go Proven ability to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues Experience as a tech lead who has mentored or led small teams in building product features at scale