Financial Infrastructure Engineer

Career Movement

Daly City, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apache Kafka, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Automation, Banking Services, Billing, Distributed Computing, Establish Priorities, Messaging Middleware, MySQL, PCI-DSS, PostgreSQL, Python Programming/Scripting Language, RabbitMQ, Reconciliation, Scalable System Development, Simple Queue Service (SQS), Treasury
LOCATION
Daly City, CA
POSTED
30+ days ago

We're working with a high growth AI company who is building a payment platform that supports dramatically high volume transactions and now needs the infrastructure to match.

Responsibilities

  • Automate payout orchestration to eliminate manual, human triggered workflows
  • Build an immutable, auditable operational ledger
  • Design settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines
  • Improve observability across the full payout to processor to bank flow
  • Fix recurring payment bugs at the root cause
  • Reduce manual treasury overhead
  • Abstract processor dependencies to avoid vendor lock in

Requirements

  • 5+ years building scalable backend systems, ideally in payments, fintech, billing, or financial infrastructure
  • 3+ years owning production backend or platform systems
  • Direct experience integrating with payment gateways (Stripe, Adyen, or similar) and/or banking APIs
  • Familiarity with PCI DSS compliance and secure handling of sensitive financial data
  • Strong experience working with transactional databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
  • Familiarity with message queues, streaming platforms, and distributed systems tools such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Temporal, or Kubernetes
  • Python proficiency
  • Systems thinker who prioritizes reliability, observability, and automation over workarounds

About the Company

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Career Movement

A career isn’t a job. It’s a series of experiences that become your life. You want Challenging. Motivating. Inspiring. Awesome. We get it. That’s what we do at Career Movement - we help you find Awesome. And when you’re done with that, we’re right here with you, prepped to tackle the next great adventure. We’re here for the long haul. We like getting to know you. And we’re here to cheer you on.

Your time is valuable, and job searches take time. Save yours for the things you want to be doing, rather than sending out resumes and leaving voicemails. Let us do the work for you - our deep networks and resources will be invaluable at getting you in front of the right hiring managers at your ideal company. But we’re more than just a matchmaker. We’ll prep you for interviews, provide career counseling, and make you the best version of yourself.

We move beyond standard recruiting. We provide real life connections for the tech world.

COMPANY SIZE
10 to 19 employees
INDUSTRY
Staffing/Employment Agencies
FOUNDED
1999
WEBSITE
http://www.careermovement.com