Senior Software Engineer

Seek out customer, data, and design-driven insight and use that insight to help your team clear plans, priorities, and goals for your team. Consistently deliver high-quality new products and features while improving the reliability of what already exists. Set audacious goals for your area’s impact on the overall organization and regularly hit them. Speak the language of the engineering, design, data science, and go-to-market functions to coordinate complex cross-functional initiatives. Translate long term vision into clear actionable next steps for engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities:

Backend Development: Design, develop, and maintain scalable payment services using Go to support Bolt’s Connect roadmap, including multi-seller payouts and Merchant-of-Record (MoR) capabilities.

Payments Infrastructure: Build and evolve core payment APIs, ledgers, and payout systems that enable complex transaction routing across sellers and platforms. Scalability & Reliability: Architect systems for high throughput and fault tolerance across PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Elasticsearch databases. Technical Leadership: Serve as a technical leader within the Payments team, guiding design reviews, mentoring peers, and ensuring robust incident response and monitoring. Merchant Enablement: Collaborate with merchant-facing teams to understand payout requirements, settlement cycles, and regulatory compliance needs. Security & Compliance: Implement systems aligned with PCI DSS, AML, and Know Your Customer (KYC) standards; support fraud prevention and tokenization initiatives. API Development: Build and maintain REST APIs and webhooks powering payouts, refunds, and multi-party transactions. Observability: Use Datadog for service health, logging, and alerting to maintain visibility and performance across payment systems. Automation & Efficiency: Identify manual touchpoints in payout and transaction workflows and automate wherever possible to ensure speed and accuracy.