Staff Software Engineer - Europe
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Staff Software Engineer - Europe
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical direction for its Europe engineering team. This full-time role is based in London (hybrid) and focuses on open banking platform, payments, and bank connectivity.
About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] Europe is building [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] in Europe—the open banking platform that makes international expansion one click away for fintechs who want to scale globally.
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area, translating product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps with crisp scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
- Stay hands-on—owning high-leverage projects, spiking and prototyping to de-risk, or going deep on the hardest parts of projects others own, depending on the quarter.
- Own technical excellence for the team—setting and holding a high bar through design reviews, architectural decisions, and code quality.
- Partner closely with the EM and PM to identify opportunities, make tradeoffs, and keep the team focused on the highest-leverage work.
- Maintain a strong connection to US engineering and platform teams, ensuring Europe's requirements shape platform decisions and the team leverages shared infrastructure rather than building in isolation.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including operating as a technical lead on a product engineering team.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
- Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems (four 9s) in production—understands the reliability and correctness bar required for critical infrastructure.
- Demonstrated track record of effective delegation—has scaled their impact by enabling senior engineers to own technical direction, not by doing everything themselves.
- Strong product engineering instinct—can take a product strategy and translate it into a crisp engineering roadmap with clear scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
- Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems in production.
- [Nice to have] Payments domain experience—has worked in payments infrastructure, processing, or a related domain.
- [Nice to have] Experience working across time zones with distributed engineering teams.
- [Nice to have] Fintech or financial infrastructure experience beyond payments (e.g., credit, lending, identity).
- [Nice to have] Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns.
Apply
Interested candidates can apply via the application link.