Career Movement

Financial Infrastructure Engineer

Career Movement  •  Daly City, CA (Onsite)  •  2 months ago
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Job Description

We're working with a high growth AI company who is building a payment platform that supports dramatically high volume transactions and now needs the infrastructure to match.

Responsibilities

  • Automate payout orchestration to eliminate manual, human triggered workflows
  • Build an immutable, auditable operational ledger
  • Design settlement ingestion and reconciliation pipelines
  • Improve observability across the full payout to processor to bank flow
  • Fix recurring payment bugs at the root cause
  • Reduce manual treasury overhead
  • Abstract processor dependencies to avoid vendor lock in

Requirements

  • 5+ years building scalable backend systems, ideally in payments, fintech, billing, or financial infrastructure
  • 3+ years owning production backend or platform systems
  • Direct experience integrating with payment gateways (Stripe, Adyen, or similar) and/or banking APIs
  • Familiarity with PCI DSS compliance and secure handling of sensitive financial data
  • Strong experience working with transactional databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
  • Familiarity with message queues, streaming platforms, and distributed systems tools such as Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Temporal, or Kubernetes
  • Python proficiency
  • Systems thinker who prioritizes reliability, observability, and automation over workarounds
Career Movement

About Career Movement

The right person, in the right place, at the right time. Some might say it’s fate. We’d say it’s what we do.

We move beyond standard recruiting. We provide real life connections for the tech world.

Companies today want to attract and retain only the finest employees - those with specialized skills, insight, and the ability to grow and stay ahead of the trend. We understand what it takes to find the expertise you’re looking for. Career Movement goes above and beyond headhunting. Our extensive networks and expertise bring the choices to you. We draw from an accomplished pool of applicants, giving you your choice of the top talent. While you’re busy being the best at your job, let us be the best at ours. Our team-based approach allows us to tackle your hunt from all different angles. We’ll save you the long, drawn out hassle of finding the right candidate, leaving you free to do what you do best: run your business.

Centrally located in El Segundo, California, our corporate offices are easy to get to, right off the 105 and 405. Our team-based approach means you’ve got all hands on deck. If you’d like to take a peek around, meet the team, and check out our modern and professional meeting spaces, we would love to introduce ourselves.

Industry
HR & Recruiting
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Unknown
Year Founded
1999
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