Senior software engineer

You'll be at the core of Payva's financial systems - designing, building, and scaling the Back End infrastructure that keeps the creator economy moving. Your work will power the flow of data and money across integrations, payments, and insights.

• Architect and build Back End systems that handle credit pulls, payments orchestration, payouts, digital wallets, and financial analytics.
• Design and optimize GraphQL and RESTful APIs to connect Payva's platform with external financial partners and internal services.
• Develop tools that give creators visibility into customer payments, default rates, projected MRR, and other key business metrics.
• Ensure systems are secure, compliant, and scalable, supporting rapid product growth.
• Collaborate with product, data, and infrastructure teams to deliver high-impact features that ship fast and perform flawlessly.
• Continuously improve data flow, error handling, and performance across Payva's AWS-powered backend.
• Lead by example in writing clean, maintainable code and mentoring other engineers.

• 5 years of Back End engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong command of JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS.
• Proven experience building and scaling APIs (GraphQL and RESTful).
• Proficiency in Postgres, with strong understanding of data modeling and optimization.
• Solid knowledge of AWS services - especially EC2, RDS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, and CDK.
• Experience with payments systems, financial APIs, or fintech integrations is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows, GitLab, GitHub, and modern deployment pipelines.
• A pragmatic mindset - you balance speed and quality to ship code that matters.

Bonus Points

• Experience with event-driven or microservices architectures.
• Exposure to KYC/KYB, credit underwriting, or ledger systems.
• Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills.
• Prior work on creator platforms or financial insights products.

Why Payva We're a fast growing, early stage company where you'll have real ownership over the technology that defines how creators build their businesses. You'll work with a sharp, driven team that believes in execution, iteration, and continuous improvement. This isn't a place to hide behind process - it's a place to build.