Staff Engineer (Payments)
About The Position
Fiserv is a global leader in financial services technology, and our Clover team is at the heart of transforming how merchants around the world connect with customers and grow their businesses. As a Staff Backend Engineer for Payments, you will join a highly collaborative product engineering team responsible for creating and scaling cutting-edge back-of-house web applications, e-commerce APIs, and business-critical payment integrations. In this role, you will take technical ownership of the high-throughput cloud infrastructure that powers our Virtual Terminal, Invoicing, Recurring Billing engines, and hosted checkout solutions, directly ensuring that millions of global transactions are processed seamlessly every day.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software development experience delivering production-grade systems within a product-driven team environment.
- Strong, hands-on coding skills within the JVM ecosystem, utilizing Java and Spring Boot to design and scale distributed microservices.
- Practical experience developing and deploying containerized workloads within a Kubernetes environment.
- Demonstrated ability to generalize complex business processes and build simple, flexible, and extensible core domain services that cleanly support multiple consumer products.
- Deep expertise in designing, versioning, and maintaining secure, performant RESTful APIs for web and mobile clients.
- Solid experience working with relational databases (e.g., MySQL) paired with hands-on experience designing large-scale distributed architectures across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
- Strong proficiency with version control systems (Git), automated testing frameworks, and managing automated CI/CD pipelines.
- A proven self-starter with exceptional troubleshooting skills who can independently identify system bottlenecks and execute robust technical solutions.
Nice To Haves
- Previous engineering experience within the payments, e-commerce, core checkouts, or fintech industries.
- Foundational understanding of network security protocols, data tokenization, compliance standards (PCI DSS), and core cryptography.
- Hands-on experience or familiarity working across multiple parts of the application stack, including modern web user interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, end-to-end development, and cloud deployment of scalable software applications and microservices to support Clover’s payment processing ecosystem.
- Partner deeply with cross-functional product, design, and architecture teams to gather complex requirements and translate business goals into clean, maintainable technical specifications.
- Perform rigorous coding, testing, and proactive debugging of backend components to guarantee optimal latency, fault isolation, and transaction reliability.
- Maintain, refactor, and evolve existing core payment codebases while leading architectural design and peer code review processes to uphold elite engineering standards.
- Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders, providing architectural guidance to enhance the collective capabilities and product-thinking of the development team.
- Participate in regular on-call and release management rotations to provide production support services and maintain high system availability.
Benefits
- Fuel Your Life program to support your physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being
- Paid holidays and generous time away policies
- No-cost mental health support through Employee Assistance Programs
- Living Proof program to recognize your peers’ extra effort with points redeemable for rewards
- Eight Employee Resource Groups to foster a collaborative culture and expand your network
- Unparalleled professional growth with training, development, and internal mobility opportunities
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance options available from day one
- Retirement planning and discounted shares with the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Tuition assistance and reimbursement program
- Paid parental, caregiver, and military leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
