Staff Software Engineer - Europe
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Staff Software Engineer - Europe
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Europe team. This is a full-time, on-site position based in London, UK. The role involves setting technical direction across Europe's product surface area, including payments, credit insights, and bank connectivity. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience in software engineering, expertise in Go and Python, and a strong background in distributed, high-availability systems.
About Us
[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. [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. The team owns four core pillars: Account-to-Account Payments, Cash Flow & Income Insights for Credit, Bank Connectivity Across Europe, and Consumer Experience.
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.
- 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.
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.
- Demonstrated track record of effective delegation.
- Strong product engineering instinct.
- [Nice to have] Payments domain experience, distributed engineering teams, fintech or financial infrastructure, open banking APIs.
Equal Opportunity
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