Staff Software Engineer

Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global PaymentsNium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders. Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 190+ countries, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 40 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work as a cross-platform Architect and hands-on technologist for our Fintech Platform teams to take our platform offerings to the next level.You will also lead our Enterprise Reliability initiatives to design, build and maintain highly available architectures for our Fintech Platforms.In this role, you will be working closely with Full stack teams across the Nium platform and ensuring that our systems are built from the ground up with security, stability and observability requirements.This role is a high impact, high visibility role, as you ensure that our customers get high quality software that is highly available, secure and performant.Expectations include:Drive process andarchitectural changesthat can help us maintain 99.99% uptime reliably, as we scale massively across Payment platforms.Work alongside the AWS Infrastructure team to ensure successful  adoption and rollout of gitops based EKS deployments across the entire orgWorkCross-functionally with the engineering & QAleads across squadsDevelopAI-Enabled toolsto automate workflows and streamline productivity across the orgsOwn theObservabilitycharter and develop cutting tools and frameworks for incorporating observability into the development cultureSimplify andmodernize our Automation Frameworksto integrate AI workflows and tighter integration with our Gitops based CI/CD workflow.RESPONSIBILITIESWork with cross-functional teams across product, development compliance and security to understand the roadmap and translate to scalable system designDefinemetrics for measuring our service availabilityand performanceProactivelybuilding and implementing tools and servicesto make developers and tech support better at their jobsEnsure andpromote security, high availability/zero downtime and scalability in all organizational and team implementationsCritical Path Analysis and SPOFAnalysisDevelopRun-Books for thorough service feature documentationand troubleshooting. e.g. when a remittance failure happens, enable faster MTTROrganize training for Engineers to become part ofOn-call teamsBuild and maintain AI powered tools for internal knowledge based enhancement and applications like root cause analysis, using techniques like RAGBuildAI powered toolsthat act as Co-Pilots for our Customer Support (CS) Agents to offer best-in-class supportEnsure feature implementations are low maintenance using continuous integration and continuous deployment methods with a focus onAutomated Test feedback and rollbackIdentify existing open source / proprietary tools that can solve business problems and evaluate them to help make the build or buy decisionSet thevision for Engineering Excellencein our Production Systems and Inspire action from Fullstack teams towards implementing the right design and monitoring standardsUse your strong knowledge of how Infrastructure and Application development interact, to switch comfortably betweenArchitecture and Hands-on featuredevelopment work as neededImprovise the Production Incident Management system and ensure thatactionable insightsare derived from live site incident RCAs/PostMortem sessionsBe a frontline person duringLive Site Incidentsand stay calm under pressure to drive collaborative resolutionQUALIFICATIONSB.S. or M.S. Computer Science and 6+ years in software development experienceStrong software development fundamentals (Data structures, Algorithms, problem-solving, OO design, and systems architecture).Strong understanding of object-oriented software developmentUnderstanding of large and complex code bases, including API design techniques to help keep them clean and maintainable.Experience with handling Live production support on large scale systemsProficiency in 1 statically typed and 1 dynamically typed language and good knowledge of frameworks like Spring, Hibernate, Nodejs Express etc.Knowledge of multithreading and memory management specific to mobile devices and caching mechanismsHas passion for delivering excellence in software systems with a can-do attitude.Experience on implementing observability platforms using any of products suites like Sumologic, Datadog, NewRelic, ELK, PrometheusGood to have Experience with infrastructure automation and monitoring tools- Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etcWhat we offer at NiumWe Value Performance:Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.We Care for Our Employees:The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).We Upskill Ourselves:We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.We Celebrate Together:We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!We Thrive with Diversity:Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.For more detailed region specific benefits :https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perksFor more information visit www.nium.comDepending on your location, certain laws may regulate the way Nium manages the data of candidates. By submitting your job application, you are agreeing and acknowledging that you have read and understand ourCandidate Privacy Noticelocated atwww.nium.com/privacy/candidate-privacy-notice.