Senior Software Engineer - Live Pay

POSITION SUMMARY

We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and resourceful backend software engineer to join our Live Pay team. In our team, you’ll work cross-functionally with various teams and contribute to the design and development of key platform services. This person will need to be strong in JVM programming languages and event-driven architecture, in addition to AWS. The Canada base salary range for this full-time position is $199,000- $244,000, plus equity and benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. This role will be hybrid from our Vancouver, CAN office, with 2 days a week in the office required.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Drive the design and implementation of new features, break down complex problems into their bare essentials, translate this complexity into elegant design, and create high-quality, maintainable code


• Make a meaningful impact on the lives of our community members


• Create and maintain test automation to enable continuous integration and development velocity


• Design and deliver robust microservices integrations via REST/gRPC APIs and via messaging patterns (events/queues)


• Collaborate and mentor other engineers while providing thoughtful guidance using code, design, and architecture reviews


• Work cross-functionally with other teams, including data science, design, product, marketing, and analytics


• Debug production issues across our services infrastructure and multiple levels of our stack


• Work with distributed systems and services, and care passionately about producing high-quality code

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• 4+ years of development experience in Software Engineering


• Bachelor's, Master’s, or PhD degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent industry experience.


• Proficient in at least one JVM programming language, such as Java, Kotlin, or Scala.


• Experience with at least one major framework like Spring, Spring Boot


• Hands-on experience with SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, or Oracle, experience with NoSQL databases is a plus


• Hands-on experience working in cloud environments: AWS, GCP, or Azure


• Hands-on experience with streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, and AWS Kinesis.


• Experience with continuous integration and delivery tools.


• Experienced in developing and executing functional and integration tests.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


• Experience with Kubernetes and microservice architecture is a strong plus.


• Experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor, LLMs)