We’re inviting experienced, senior backend engineers with generalist skills to join the core TipTop team. We are looking for an autonomous operator who is a highly motivated self-starter. Are you a seasoned engineer with previous experience in a fast paced, blue sky, startup environment who can solve problems from a blank slate? This is the place.

You Will:

• Solve complex challenges building software systems for products and verticals that we’re inventing as we work.
• Develop solid, scalable services that manage sensitive financial data and critical business logic.
• Partner and collaborate closely with product designers, infrastructure, client side, and machine learning teams.
• Contribute to the development of consumer facing experimentation and risk platforms.
• Have the opportunity to build and lead a team.

You Have:

• 5+ years of experience as a software engineer architecting, building, launching, and maintaining end-to-end services from whiteboard to production.
• Proven experience leading and implementing complex payment systems and integrations in a scalable way.
• Deep understanding of charges, payouts, chargebacks, declines, refunds, and checkout integrations.
• Demonstrated ability turning business and product ideas into engineering solutions – you can go from zero to one.
• Strong CS fundamentals and programming experience in Go and Python.
• A desire to experiment, test assumptions, and challenge hypotheses rapidly.
• The ability to see complex problems as solvable challenges.

Even Better:

• Lead contributor to previous implementations of Stripe, Square, Plaid, Affirm, or similar.
• Passion for building, bias for action, and are excited by uncertainty.
• You are autonomous & adaptable – own the work, move fast, react quickly.
• Interest and ability to pick up new technologies quickly.
• Curiosity in evolving ML platforms and LLMs.

Tech Stack:

• Go
• Python
• SQL/Postgres
• GCP
• Docker
• Kubernetes