This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Sr. Staff Engineer - Payments & Commerce Platform based in India.
This is a senior individual-contributor role shaping the architecture of a global commerce platform designed to operate at extraordinary scale.
You will own critical domains spanning payments, subscriptions, catalog, pricing, inventory, fulfillment, tax, and reconciliation.
The role combines deep technical leadership with hands-on engineering across distributed, multi-tenant systems.
You will establish reliability, security, observability, auditability, and cost-efficiency standards for mission-critical payment paths.
Working across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Support, you will translate platform capabilities into dependable customer outcomes.
You will also raise engineering standards through design reviews, technical strategy, mentorship, and developer-enablement practices.




This is an opportunity to influence systems and engineering practices at organizational scale without direct people-management responsibility.
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Accountabilities
Architect and deliver multi-tenant, highly scalable commerce services covering checkout, subscriptions, payments orchestration, invoicing, and tax, using transparent domain boundaries and well-defined SLOs.
Own API and schema governance, including protobuf and ConnectRPC conventions, versioning, compatibility, deprecation strategies, contract testing, and breaking-change controls.
Design resilient payment and commerce workflows using idempotency, retries, circuit breakers, outbox/Saga patterns, graceful degradation, concurrency controls, and automated recovery mechanisms.
Establish end-to-end auditability through append-only ledgers, immutable event streams, trace-linked entities, tamper-evident records, and accurate reconciliation processes.
Define and manage failure boundaries across payment providers, networks, data systems, concurrency

📌 Sr. Staff Engineer (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India