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PayPal Sr Software Engineer Ruby Rails United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles. Advises immediate management on project-level...
Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
  • Advises immediate management on project-level issues
  • Guides junior engineers
  • Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
  • Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Expected Qualifications:

  • 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications

In your day-to-day role you will work ondesigning and building solutions for enterprise merchants with the objective of helping streamline onboarding, increase authorization rates, reduce costs, reduce fraud, and drive conversion.

We practice test-driven development and strongly encourage a culture of pair programming. Developers test, release, and monitor their own code.

We value unique perspectives brought by diverse backgrounds and experiences. A broad range of ideas and perspectives help us to create the best possible product.

What we look for in you:

  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience and abachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

  • Track recordin designing and writing understandable, testable, and easy-to-maintain software.

  • Ability and desire to work in our collaborative environment: open team room, pair programming and fluid interactions with all products and operations teams.

  • High interest in Test Driven Development and specific experiences using a test heavy approach to solve problems and create solutions.

Platform Reliability & Observability

  • Implement and enhance observability frameworks including logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting using Splunk, Datadog,Sentry, and PagerDuty.

  • maintainhigh-availability architecturesacross AWS and GCP.

  • Lead Incident and Problem Management practices — ensuring rapid detection, efficient triage, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation.

  • Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs, build dashboards, and automate monitoring and alerting workflows.

  • Contribute to on-call rotations and ensure incident response readiness across critical systems.

Core Development & Feature Delivery

  • Design, build, andoptimize backend services and APIs usingRuby on Railsand PostgreSQL data systems.

  • GCP BigQueryfor performance tuning, analytics, and data consistency across transactional systems.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable payment solutions.

  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning to drive excellence in system architecture and development.

  • Build automation, integration pipelines, and scalable componentsleveragingAWS/GCP cloud services.

Required Skills

  • backend or platform engineering experiencein high-availability, transaction-heavy, or FinTech environments.

  • Experience with Ruby on Rails for building backend APIs and services.

  • Solid SQL development skills with PostgreSQL and GCP

  • proficiency withAWS and GCP Cloudinfrastructure and services.

  • expertise inobservability tools:Splunk, DataDog, PagerDuty.

  • Proven experience in Incident Management and Problem Management from detection to post-incident review.

  • Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and collaboration skills across distributed systems.

Bonus / Preferred Skills

  • Understanding of Network OSI model, SQS, Kafka, Data Replication, and API integrations.

  • Experience designing scalable architectures in AWS.

  • Exposure to AI/ML, particularly LLM (Large Language Model) integrations.

  • ITIL v4 Certification ordemonstrated familiarity with IT service management best practices.

  • teammodernizing and scaling a critical FinTech platform.

  • Shape the future of our observability and reliability ecosystem, setting standards across the organization.

  • Work in a culture that values technical excellence, ownership,pair programming, and continuous improvement.

  • Competitive compensation, flexible hybrid workmodel, and real opportunities for career growth across platform and product domains.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850


Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

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08.12.2025
PP

PayPal Sr Cloud Security Engineer United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives. Partner with peers and...
Description:

Information Security Engineer focused on cloud infrastructure and application security. There will be a heavy focus on large scale and highly dynamic GCP and AWS cloud environments with global presence.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
  • Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
  • Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
  • Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
  • Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Expected Qualifications:

  • 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

What do you need to bring:

A minimal of 5 years of experience working in a cybersecurity related position.

Experience working with cloud-native security tools, AWS and GCP Infrastructure design, operation, and deployment, container and host security

Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Knowledge of Kubernetes, terraform, source code management, infrastructure and application security tools such as CSPM, SAST, DAST, API security, DDOS and WAF

Development experience is a plus.

Preferred certifications:

Cloud Security related certifications (AWS, GCP)

Degree in Computer Science or related field.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850


Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

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08.12.2025
BOA

Bank Of America Vice President Operations Lead United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Collaborate with others in the organization to ensure successful implementation of chosen problem solutions. Analyze information obtained from management to conceptualize and define operational problems. Prepare management reports defining and...
Description:

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with others in the organization to ensure successful implementation of chosen problem solutions.

  • Analyze information obtained from management to conceptualize and define operational problems.

  • Prepare management reports defining and evaluating problems and recommending solutions.

  • Observe the current system in operation, and gather and analyze information about each of the component problems, using a variety of sources.

  • Track all client visits/meetings and ensure all client successes are logged for weekly reporting.

  • Drive proactive client communications through regular meetings, broker reviews, and calls.

  • Track and drive resolution (both strategic and tactical where necessary) of client requests.

  • Work with clients to educate on the firm’s self-service tools and industry solutions.

  • Analyze effort and support across teams by individual client.

  • Coordinate and chair internal stakeholder meetings around client updates.

  • Analyze complex query resolution from clients trading Futures and Options within Global Markets industry; queries span trades, position, lifecycle events, commission, reporting, product, and process offering.

  • Review and assess trade allocations, collateral movements and reconciliation of positions to facilitate workflow.

  • Improve clients’ processes to STP by analyzing tableau metrics and their metric accuracy around trade and commission flows.

  • Test implemented SAP solutions, including unit testing, integration testing and user acceptance test.

  • Work with GMI books and records platform and testing new functionality.

  • Remote work may be permitted within a commutable distance from the worksite.

Required Skills & Experience

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Operations Research, Mathematics, Economics, Finance, or related: and

  • 5 years of progressively responsible experience in the job offered or a related Quantitative occupation.

  • Must include 5 years of experience in each of the following:

  • Analyzing complex query resolution from clients trading Futures and Options within Global Markets industry; queries span trades, position, lifecycle events, commission, reporting, product, and process offering;

  • Reviewing and assessing trade allocations, collateral movements and reconciliation of positions to facilitate workflow;

  • Improving clients’ processes to STP by analyzing tableau metrics and their metric accuracy around trade and commission flows; and,

  • Working with books and records platform and testing new functionality.

  • In the alternative, the employer will accept a Master's degree and 3 years of experience.

If interested apply online ator email your resume toand reference the job title of the role and requisition number.

BofA Securities, Inc.

1st shift (United States of America)

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08.12.2025
EY

EY SAP Finance Transformation Sales Lead - United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Leading engagement delivery and managing client relationships on a daily basis. Overseeing program/project management and ensuring engagement economics are met. Developing resource plans and budgets for complex engagements. Strong technical...
Description:

We innovate with SAP to co-create more innovative answers, drawing on our integrated competencies in tax, assurance, transactions and risk, as well as our work in implementing SAP. Together, we help clients provide better outcomes and long-lasting results, from strategy to execution.

On your typical engagement, you will work with the key stakeholders to understand their needs and advise on SAP system capabilities.  You will initiate the requirement gathering, architect solutions, blueprinting, testing, complete the workflow and documentation, as well as the functional design of the solution. Liaise with the stakeholders and technical team to translate needs into business solutions and complete the configurations and/or integrations with SAP and non-SAP systems.

As a Senior Manager in our Technology practice, you will play a pivotal role in interacting with business stakeholders to evaluate and analyze business models, processes, and operations. You will translate business requirements into technical specifications and ensure that newly implemented technology solutions meet these requirements. Your collaboration with technical teams will be crucial in designing and delivering effective system architecture solutions.

Your key responsibilities

In this role, you will manage and deliver complex processes and solutions while maintaining a strong focus on quality and risk management. You will face challenges that require innovative problem-solving and analytical skills, allowing you to grow your expertise in technology analysis and implementation. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading engagement delivery and managing client relationships on a daily basis.
  • Overseeing program/project management and ensuring engagement economics are met.
  • Developing resource plans and budgets for complex engagements.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, you will need to demonstrate effective management skills, an understanding of operational and organizational dynamics, and the ability to maintain quality and manage risk.

  • Strong technical skills in application functional design and technology business requirements definition.
  • Proven ability to analyze and map technology cost-benefit scenarios.
  • Expertise in system configuration design and business architecture frameworks.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively.
  • Oversee EY and client personnel
  • Consistently deliver quality client services. Monitor progress, manage risk and ensure key stakeholders are kept informed about progress and expected outcomes.
  • Participate in sales pursuits and business development activities

To qualify for the role, you must have

  • A Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred)
  • 5-7+ years of relevant experience in sales/pursuits
  • At least 10+ years of experience working with SAP S4HANA Finance modules
  • Strong knowledge of Finance integration with other SAP components (e.g. Supply Chain, Sales & Distribution, etc.)
  • Proven track record leading Finance Team on at least two full-cycle SAP implementations
  • Working knowledge of SAP Accelerate methodology or similar implementation method
  • Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills
  • Experience managing an SAP project or workstream and project-based team members.
  • Experience operating in hybrid onshore / offshore delivery model
  • Knowledge of leading practices, benchmarking, peer company environments and prior advisory experience relevant to industry specific finance and technology functions
  • Ability and comfort level researching client inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices, and new technologies
  • A willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 60+%

Ideally, you’ll also have

  • Prior consulting industry experience with Big Four or major SAP SI company
  • SAP Certification/s C_TS4FI “Financial Accounting, C_TS4CO “Management Accounting”, E-S4CPE “Implementation consultant”
  • Prior industry experience in Finance or Accounting capacity

What we offer you
At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

  • We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $169,900 to $388,200. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $203,900 to $441,300. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
  • Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
  • Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.


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08.12.2025
PA

Palo Alto Channel Systems Engineer United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Technical Expertise: Act as the primary technical subject matter expert for our network security solutions within the CDW commercial segment. This includes conducting product demonstrations, presentations, and technical deep dives...
Description:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

  • Technical Expertise: Act as the primary technical subject matter expert for our network security solutions within the CDW commercial segment. This includes conducting product demonstrations, presentations, and technical deep dives for both CDW sales teams and end customers.
  • Sales and Partnership Support: Collaborate closely with the sales team to develop and execute technical strategies that drive revenue and market share through the CDW channel. Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with key CDW stakeholders, including account managers, solutions architects, and leadership.
  • Pre-Sales Support: Provide comprehensive pre-sales support, including responding to RFIs/RFPs, creating solution architectures, and assisting with bill of materials. Offer technical guidance and support during the post-sales implementation phase to ensure customer success and satisfaction.
  • Training and Enablement: Develop and deliver technical training programs for the CDW sales force to enhance their knowledge and confidence in positioning our network security products. Stay current with industry trends and competitive technologies to effectively articulate our value proposition.
  • Drive commercial demand generation activities: Work with Palo Alto Networks Leadership and CDW Leadership to drive pipeline generating initiatives with Marketing and Channel Business Managers.

Your Experience

  • A minimum of 7 + years of direct experience working in a solutions engineering or a similar technical role within the CDW commercial channel is required.
  • Technical Skills: Extensive and demonstrable experience in network endpoint and cloud security , including a strong understanding of firewalls, VPNs, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and other related security technologies.
  • Communication: Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills. Must be adept at explaining complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Sales Acumen: Strong business and sales acumen with the ability to translate technical features into tangible business benefits.
  • Location: This is a Chicago based position, but the candidate must be willing to travel as needed

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $198000 - $273000/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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08.12.2025
EY

EY SAP - Supply Chain Sales Lead Senior Manager United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Leading engagement delivery and managing client relationships on a daily basis. Overseeing program/project management and ensuring engagement economics are met. Developing resource plans and budgets for complex engagements. Lead large-scale...
Description:

As a Senior Manager in our Technology practice, you will play a pivotal role in interacting with business stakeholders to evaluate and analyze business models, processes, and operations. You will translate business requirements into technical specifications and ensure that newly implemented technology solutions meet these requirements. Your collaboration with technical teams will be crucial in designing and delivering effective system architecture solutions.


In this role, you will manage and deliver complex processes and solutions while maintaining a strong focus on quality and risk management. You will face challenges that require innovative problem-solving and analytical skills, allowing you to grow your expertise in technology analysis and implementation. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Leading engagement delivery and managing client relationships on a daily basis.
  • Overseeing program/project management and ensuring engagement economics are met.
  • Developing resource plans and budgets for complex engagements.


To thrive in this role, you will need a blend of technical and interpersonal skills that will allow you to build strong relationships and deliver exceptional results. Key skills include:

  • Lead large-scale sales pursuits across Consumer Business, Manufacturing, Technology or Industrial Products sectors.
  • Identify and generate new business opportunities by understanding EY’s service lines and proactively assessing client needs. Collaborate with team members across EY practices to effectively serve clients.
  • Cultivate long-term relationships with clients across various sectors, including Consumer Business, Manufacturing, Technology and Industrial Products. Build and maintain connections with client personnel at all levels, including CXOs, to foster collaboration and trust.
  • Develop market insights by understanding client contexts and aligning them with SAP solutions, roadmap and strategies. Create a robust pipeline by collaborating closely with sector alliance leads and SAP solution capabilities for prioritized sectors.
  • Utilize an integrated sales framework to proactively drive large-scale SAP pursuits. Incorporate innovative solutions to meet client transformation needs and leverage differentiated client experiences to achieve successful sales.
  • Effectively lead and motivate diverse sales pursuit teams, providing constructive feedback and coaching. Foster an innovative, inclusive, and team-oriented work environment while mentoring junior consultants.
  • Lead large-scale SAP client engagements or work streams, ensuring alignment with client objectives.
  • Demonstrate in-depth SAP solution capabilities and strong business acumen. Stay informed about current business and industry trends relevant to clients and exhibit the ability to assimilate new knowledge.
  • Consistently deliver high-quality client services by monitoring progress, managing risks, and keeping key stakeholders informed of developments and expected outcomes.
  • Strong technical skills in application functional design and technology business requirements definition.
  • Proven ability to analyze and map technology cost-benefit scenarios.
  • Expertise in system configuration design and business architecture frameworks.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively.

To qualify for the role, you must have

  • A Bachelor’s degree; a Master’s degree is preferred.
  • At least 15 years of related work experience.
  • At least 10 years of experience driving large SAP Sales initiatives for clients in Consumer Business, Manufacturing, Technology or Industrial Products.
  • A proven ability to build and develop SAP market presence and pipeline by aligning client needs with SAP solutions, roadmaps and strategies.
  • A minimum of 10 years of experience in SAP Supply Chain management programs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, presentation, client service and technical writing skills.
  • Demonstrated experience managing SAP projects or work streams, including oversight of project-based team members.
  • Knowledge of best practices in SAP Supply Chain, along with benchmarking and advisory experience related to manufacturing-specific technology functions.
  • Proficiency in researching client inquiries and emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices and new technologies.
  • A flexibility and willingness to travel to meet client needs; travel is estimated at 40-60%.

Ideally, you’ll also have

  • Prior experience in the consulting industry.
  • Experience leading primary sales initiatives for SAP Supply Chain and other SAP solutions.
  • Proven track record as a workstream or team lead for Supply Chain projects utilizing SAP.
  • Experience with at least three full lifecycle implementations of SAP ERP (ECC and/or S/4HANA), specifically within SAP Supply Chain modules (Production Planning, Materials Management, Logistics Execution).
  • Experience integrating SAP with IBP, Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and SAP Quality Management (QM).
  • Knowledge of manufacturing operations, particularly in complex industrial equipment or assembly line environments.
  • Understanding of product lifecycle management, including Engineering Bill of Materials (BOMs) and Manufacturing Bill of Materials (BOMs).
  • Experience with both Make to Stock and Make/Engineer/Configure to Order business models.



At EY, we’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences. We’ll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn .

  • We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $171,600 to $392,100. The base salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $205,900 to $445,700. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options.
  • Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year.
  • Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.


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19.11.2025
PP

PayPal Staff Machine Learning Engineer United States, Illinois, Chicago

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Lead the development and optimization of advanced machine learning models. Oversee the preprocessing and analysis of large datasets. Deploy and maintain ML solutions in production environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams...
Description:

This job will lead the design, development, and implementation of advanced machine learning models and algorithms to solve complex problems. You will work closely with data scientists, software engineers, and product teams to enhance services through innovative AI/ML solutions. Your role will involve building scalable ML pipelines, ensuring data quality, and deploying models into production environments to drive business insights and improve customer experiences.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Lead the development and optimization of advanced machine learning models.
  • Oversee the preprocessing and analysis of large datasets.
  • Deploy and maintain ML solutions in production environments.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML models into products and services.
  • Monitor and evaluate the performance of deployed models, making necessary adjustments.

Expected Qualifications:

  • 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Extensive experience with ML frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
  • Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and tools for data processing and model deployment.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $169,500 to $291,500


Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

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Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles. Advises immediate management on project-level...
Description:

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Delivers complete solutions spanning all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) (design, implementation, testing, delivery and operations), based on definitions from more senior roles.
  • Advises immediate management on project-level issues
  • Guides junior engineers
  • Operates with little day-to-day supervision, making technical decisions based on knowledge of internal conventions and industry best practices
  • Applies knowledge of technical best practices in making decisions

Expected Qualifications:

  • 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Additional Responsibilities & Preferred Qualifications

In your day-to-day role you will work ondesigning and building solutions for enterprise merchants with the objective of helping streamline onboarding, increase authorization rates, reduce costs, reduce fraud, and drive conversion.

We practice test-driven development and strongly encourage a culture of pair programming. Developers test, release, and monitor their own code.

We value unique perspectives brought by diverse backgrounds and experiences. A broad range of ideas and perspectives help us to create the best possible product.

What we look for in you:

  • Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience and abachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

  • Track recordin designing and writing understandable, testable, and easy-to-maintain software.

  • Ability and desire to work in our collaborative environment: open team room, pair programming and fluid interactions with all products and operations teams.

  • High interest in Test Driven Development and specific experiences using a test heavy approach to solve problems and create solutions.

Platform Reliability & Observability

  • Implement and enhance observability frameworks including logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting using Splunk, Datadog,Sentry, and PagerDuty.

  • maintainhigh-availability architecturesacross AWS and GCP.

  • Lead Incident and Problem Management practices — ensuring rapid detection, efficient triage, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation.

  • Define and maintain SLIs/SLOs, build dashboards, and automate monitoring and alerting workflows.

  • Contribute to on-call rotations and ensure incident response readiness across critical systems.

Core Development & Feature Delivery

  • Design, build, andoptimize backend services and APIs usingRuby on Railsand PostgreSQL data systems.

  • GCP BigQueryfor performance tuning, analytics, and data consistency across transactional systems.

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable payment solutions.

  • Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and technical planning to drive excellence in system architecture and development.

  • Build automation, integration pipelines, and scalable componentsleveragingAWS/GCP cloud services.

Required Skills

  • backend or platform engineering experiencein high-availability, transaction-heavy, or FinTech environments.

  • Experience with Ruby on Rails for building backend APIs and services.

  • Solid SQL development skills with PostgreSQL and GCP

  • proficiency withAWS and GCP Cloudinfrastructure and services.

  • expertise inobservability tools:Splunk, DataDog, PagerDuty.

  • Proven experience in Incident Management and Problem Management from detection to post-incident review.

  • Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and collaboration skills across distributed systems.

Bonus / Preferred Skills

  • Understanding of Network OSI model, SQS, Kafka, Data Replication, and API integrations.

  • Experience designing scalable architectures in AWS.

  • Exposure to AI/ML, particularly LLM (Large Language Model) integrations.

  • ITIL v4 Certification ordemonstrated familiarity with IT service management best practices.

  • teammodernizing and scaling a critical FinTech platform.

  • Shape the future of our observability and reliability ecosystem, setting standards across the organization.

  • Work in a culture that values technical excellence, ownership,pair programming, and continuous improvement.

  • Competitive compensation, flexible hybrid workmodel, and real opportunities for career growth across platform and product domains.

Travel Percent:

The total compensation for this practice may include an annual performance bonus (or other incentive compensation, as applicable), equity, and medical, dental, vision, and other benefits. For more information, visit .

The US national annual pay range for this role is $123,500 to $212,850


Our Benefits:

Any general requests for consideration of your skills, please

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