Get the chrome extension Senior Staff Software Engineer
RBGlobal
About Us: Our culture is characterized by collaboration, inclusivity, and a commitment to continuous learning, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives lead to groundbreaking solutions. Team members are empowered to share ideas and experiment across teams in all aspects of the business, fostering innovation and creativity. Leading-edge technologies and inclusive practices drive both individual and collective growth as we modernize and grow our technical capabilities.
Position Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Software Engineer responsible for leading technical execution within Product Engineering teams. This role requires implementation of product capabilities with a strong focus on API-driven services and event-driven architecture. Collaborating closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to deliver customer and product-centric capabilities while leveraging lean development practices. You’ll bring a proactive attitude about risk, working to identify and resolve performance and scalability issues. Staff Engineers cultivate a healthy and respectful environment with a passion for driving innovation and excellence.
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of services, APIs, and integrations, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Ensure code quality and implement strategies to safely and reliably make changes to production systems frequently.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Mentor and support the growth of junior and intermediate engineers through knowledge sharing, pairing, technical guidance, and feedback.
- Partner with Engineering Managers to evaluate team performance, provide input for annual reviews, and participate in hiring initiatives.
- Stay up to date on industry trends and emerging technologies, bringing innovative solutions to the team.
- Collaborate with other Staff and Sr. Staff Engineers to create a community of practice and an overall organizational technical strategy for business success.
- Influence and publishing within the organization and industry to effect positive changes in business value and tech strategy within RB Global, along with advancing the craft of software development worldwide.
**Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned in support of organizational priorities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- 10+ years of experience in software development with hands-on experience in backend development with Java or Go.
- 2 Years minimum experience as a Staff engineering supporting a minimum of 4 teams across a major business domain.
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
- Expertise in Spring Framework (e.g., Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Security) and building RESTful APIs.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices architecture, and event-driven systems.
- Strong experience with relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) as well as highly scalable no-SQL datastores.
- Experience with Knowledge Graphs, and ML/AI Feature stores is a key differentiator.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular) for collaboration with full-stack teams.
- Experience with modern Lean Software development, pair programming, TDD, and Trunk Based Development.
- Good awareness of CI and CD approaches and tools.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a remote team environment.
- A deep customer and product focus, with a passion for delivering high-quality solutions.
Why Join Us:
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies and drive innovation in software engineering with zero friction in your value stream.
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment that values diverse perspectives.
- Access to continuous learning and professional development opportunities.
- Competitive compensation and benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities.
- This is your opportunity to work with an engineering-driven organization innovating and delivering on a scale well beyond other players in our industry.
- We value innovation, consistent delivery, quality deliverables, and finding joy in our work while crushing our competition.
**Candidates located near our Headquarters (Chicago, Fort Worth, Burnaby, Mississauga) could work Hybrid to those offices.
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Senior Software Engineer, Backend (PBA - Growth)
Affirm
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
The Engineering team builds systems that power Affirm’s mission. We take pride in our craft, building reliable, performant, and scalable solutions that touch every part of the business. Whether we’re enabling new ways to pay, ensuring our platforms can scale to the most demanding levels in the industry, or developing seamless servicing experiences, our focus is on solving complex problems through exceptional engineering.
The Powered by Affirm (PBA) team builds the APIs and solutions that power all of Affirm’s integrations with Enterprise Merchants and Partners. We create and manage the APIs and tools that drive checkout and merchant onboarding, and we collaborate with stakeholders to design and build custom end-to-end integrated solutions.
What You'll Do
· You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery.
· You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs.
· You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them.
· You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts.
· You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks.
· You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example.
What We Look For
· You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin.
· You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes.
· You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others.
· You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely.
· Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders.
· You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team.
· This position requires either equivalent practical experience or a Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Base Pay Grade - N
Equity Grade - 9
Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.
Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include equity rewards, monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
USA base pay range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: $195,000 - $255,000
USA base pay range (all other U.S. states) per year: $173,000 - $233,000
Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.
We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.
[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
By clicking "Submit Application," you acknowledge that you have read Affirm's Global Candidate Privacy Notice and hereby freely and unambiguously give informed consent to the collection, processing, use, and storage of your personal information as described therein.
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Senior Software Engineer - Integrations
Worth AI
Worth is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Integrations Squad and own the systems that connect Worth to the outside world. Our squad builds and operates the third-party data integrations that power Worth's crosswalking and decisioning, the public API and SDKs ourcustomers build against, the customer-side integrations into banks, lenders, processors, and ISVs, and the internal connectors that glue Worth's services together. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who thrives in production code, handles ambiguity with confidence, and raises the technical bar for the team around them. You will design and deliver the integration layer that 700M+ SMB records flow through, break down messy partner APIs and customer requirements into clean technical plans, and anticipate the rate limits, schema drift, partial outages, and data-quality issues that come with depending on dozens of upstream systems. Your impact will extend across the squad and the broader product through both direct contribution and technical leadership.
Responsibilities
- Own the design and implementation of major integrations and subsystems, from initial partner evaluation through production rollout and ongoing operation.
- Build and maintain integrations with third-party data providers (KYB, KYC/IDV, AML, fraud, banking, identity) and abstract them behind clean, versioned internal contracts
- Design, evolve, and operate Worth's public REST APIs and SDKs, with strong attention to versioning, backward compatibility, authentication, rate limiting, and developer experience.
- Break down ambiguous partner specs, customer integration requirements, and vendor edge cases into clear technical designs with well-understood tradeoffs.
- Write high-quality production code across backend and (where needed) frontend systems using Node.js, TypeScript, Nest.js, and React.js.
- Design and evolve PostgreSQL schemas that capture vendor responses, normalization layers, and crosswalking metadata, with strong attention to indexing, performance, and data integrity.
- Build event-driven workflows with Kafka and Redis that orchestrate enrichment, retries, dead-lettering, and backpressure across slow or flaky upstream APIs.
- Optimize slow queries and resolve systemic performance bottlenecks in high-throughput integration pipelines.
- Deploy, monitor, and debug containerized integration services in Kubernetes, including the alerting and runbooks that catch vendor degradations before customers do.
- Lead pragmatic refactors of legacy or accreted integration code into modular, testable, swappable adapters.
- Handle production incidents methodically (vendor outages, schema changes, auth rotations, quota exhaustion) and harden the system to reduce recurrence.
- Lead by example in code reviews, coaching others on integration patterns, resilience, testing strategy, and API design.
- Communicate complex tradeoffs across engineering, product, partnerships, and customer-facing teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- Demonstrated ownership of major features or subsystems in production, ideally with significant integration or platform-API surface area.
- Deep expertise in the Node.js and TypeScript ecosystem.
- Strong system design skills, especially around resilient integrations: retries, idempotency, circuit breakers, rate limiting, webhook handling, and graceful degradation.
- Experience designing or operating a public API or SDK (versioning, auth, contracts, developer ergonomics).
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, including schema design and query optimization.
- Experience building or maintaining event-driven systems using Kafka.
- Comfort operating containerized applications in Kubernetes.
- Proven ability to refactor complex or legacy integration code into modular, swappable, well-tested adapters.
- Demonstrated experience mentoring junior engineers and raising team quality standards.
- Ability to operate effectively in high-ambiguity environments, including partner specs that are incomplete, contradictory, or change underneath you.
Success Metrics
- New vendor and customer integrations ship reliably and on schedule, with clear rollout, monitoring, and rollback plans.
- Existing integrations meet defined performance and reliability targets (P90/P99 latency, success rate, uptime, MTTR)
- The public API surface stays consistent, versioned, and easy for customers to build against;
- Code quality and maintainability measurably improve within the integration layer;
- Squad delivery velocity improves due to clearer technical direction and stronger execution.
Bonus Points
- Direct experience integrating with KYB, KYC/IDV, AML, fraud, banking, or identity data providers
- Experience building and shipping a public SDK in one or more languages.
- Experience with AWS services including MSK, RDS, EKS, S3, and Lambda.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
- Strong background in distributed caching strategies using Redis (response caching, dedup, rate limiting).
- Experience with Redshift schema design and ETL pipelines for vendor data.
- Production experience with Python in backend systems.
- Background in fintech, payments, lending, or regulated data environments.
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance
- Flexible Paid Time Off
- 9 paid Holidays
- Family Leave
- Remote
- Hybrid work (for Orlando Associates)
- Free Food & Snacks (Orlando)
- Wellness Resources
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