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Reposted 12 Hours Ago Remote Hiring Remotely in US Expert/Leader Remote Hiring Remotely in US Expert/Leader Lead the Payments Team by architecting and maintaining high-performance backend services, addressing complex engineering challenges, and mentoring engineering talent. The summary above was generated by AI
At Weave (NYSE: WEAV), we're on a mission to elevate the patient experience by giving healthcare practices the tools they need to run more efficiently and meaningfully connect with their patients. With 40,000+ customers and growing, Weave's all-in-one platform supports every interaction-from scheduling and payments to communication and reviews-making it easier for healthcare professionals to focus on what matters most: patient care.
Join Weave's Payments Team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of how businesses connect with their customers through seamless payment experiences. Our Payments team powers essential business payment solutions, including Text to Pay, Terminals, Online Bill Pay, and more. We strive to provide our customers with a reliable, scalable, and efficient payment infrastructure.
As a Staff Backend Engineer on the Payments Team, you will lead complex, multi-team projects, drive architectural decisions, and tackle the most challenging technical problems within Weave's payments platform. You will work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment, partnering with product managers, designers, front-end engineers, and fellow backend engineers to deliver impactful solutions at scale.
This role is ideal for a deep technical expert who thrives on solving ambiguous problems, aligning cross-functional teams, and driving long-term improvements in our architecture and systems.
- This position will be available for remote with an opportunity to work in office if located near the Lehi, UT Headquarters.
- Reports to: Engineering Manager
What You Will Own (Responsibilities)
- Architect & Lead: Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Golang microservices in a cloud-native environment.
- Solve Complex Challenges: Address large, open-ended engineering problems such as reducing operational costs, optimizing system performance, and improving payment processing efficiency.
- Drive Multi-Team & Multi-Quarter Initiatives: Lead large, strategic engineering projects that impact multiple teams and require deep expertise in distributed systems, API design, and database optimization.
- Improve System Reliability & Scalability: Ensure our payment systems are resilient, highly available, and fault-tolerant, leveraging best practices in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and alerting.
- Optimization & Performance: Identify inefficiencies in our systems, propose solutions, and execute cost-saving and performance-enhancing initiatives in collaboration with engineering leadership.
- Foster Engineering Excellence: Mentor and coach engineers across multiple teams, sharing best practices and driving improvements in code quality, testing, and deployment.
- Lead Migrations & Technical Transitions: Spearhead critical system migrations, ensuring smooth rollouts with incremental adoption, rollback strategies, and clear communication across teams.
- Collaborate & Align Stakeholders: Work closely with product, infrastructure, and security teams to align technical strategies with business objectives and ensure smooth execution.
- Ensure Operational Readiness: Define monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies to maintain system stability and performance.
- Champion Technical Strategy: Provide thought leadership on backend architecture, microservices best practices, and emerging technologies., Lead architecture and technical direction for Payments platform, building scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems, defining roadmaps, ownership of production reliability, cross-functional partnership, and mentoring engineers to improve platform quality and scalability. Top Skills: APIsDistributed SystemsGenerative AiMulti-Tenant ArchitectureObservabilityPayment SystemsSlos Coinbase, Lead technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase Payments, building high-availability, low-latency payment rails and funds-flow systems. Drive cross-team initiatives, enforce financial correctness (idempotency, reconciliation, auditability), improve reliability and cost efficiency using observability data, mentor senior engineers, and align stakeholders across product, risk, and compliance to deliver scalable global payment solutions. Top Skills: Cloud-NativeDouble-Entry LedgerGoIso 20022JavaLedgeringPayment Service Provider (Psp)Python Airbnb
Requirements
- 10+ years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise Golang, Java, Python, Ruby, C#, or similar languages.
- Strong experience designing and building scalable, distributed systems with microservices architecture.
- Proficiency in inter-service communication protocols (REST, gRPC, protobufs, message queues like NSQ, Kafka, or similar).
- Expertise in relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.) and optimization strategies.
- Strong experience in cloud environments (GCP preferred, AWS/Azure acceptable).
- Deep understanding of containerization, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Helm, etc.).
- Demonstrated ability to drive large-scale projects across multiple teams with clear communication, stakeholder alignment, and strategic decision-making.
- Experience leading technical migrations, ensuring smooth transitions with minimal disruption.
- Strong analytical skills with a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making.
- Passion for mentoring and developing engineering talent within and across teams.
What Will Make Us Love You
- Experience with building and architecting systems around integrated Payments solutions (e.g. Stripe, Braintree, etc.), or with other fintech and financial systems
- Knowledge of payments industry
- Deploying into a public cloud service (especially GCP)
- Experience with protobufs/gRPC
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and building scalable/redundant service
- Experience with breaking up monolithic applications into microservices
- Experience with service monitoring, metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and tracing
- Experience with functional/acceptance testing
Employment with Weave is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, conducted in accordance with applicable laws.
Benefits & conditions
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