TipTopHire With Rapha

Sr. Backend Engineer (Payments)

Work From Anywhere$150k – $210k • 0.25% – 0.5%full-time

About the role

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