Staff Software Engineer, Payments

TuroSan Francisco, CA
$182,000 - $228,000Hybrid

About The Position

The Payments team works with core services and other product engineering teams across the Turo eco-system to build-out new product capabilities and to enhance the scalability, performance & reliability of the services that power the Turo car rental marketplace. As Staff Software Engineer on the Payments team, you’ll work with a team of talented software engineers to design & build both new capabilities as well as migrating existing payment & billing related services, embedded in a monolith, to a new microservices architecture designed for scale on the cloud.

Requirements

  • 8-10+ years experience shipping high-scale code to production.
  • Fluent in at least one language - e.g., Java, Kotlin, Python, Go, or C
  • Possess strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, database concepts, distributed systems, and search
  • Strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to designers, support, and other engineers is no problem for you
  • Enjoy solving problems and helping others meet their goals
  • Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting systems and tools
  • Keen interest in search, streaming, database or other backend technologies

Nice To Haves

  • Bachelor's/Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field
  • Experience in building & scaling Payments & Billing systems
  • Passion for developing FinTech solutions for a growing start-up!

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product engineering, core services and platform teams to develop Turo into a set of distributed scalable microservices
  • Drive the decomposition of our legacy monolith to extract the payment and billing functions into independently deployable services
  • Own and evolve critical building blocks such as Billing, Invoicing and Payments for Turo’s growing marketplace
  • Generate maintainable, high-quality code, conduct thorough testing, engage in collaborative code reviews, and oversee the code deployment process
  • Identify opportunities for enhancing our architecture & application design of Turo
  • Create tools & utilities for diagnosing & resolving issues within Turo’s eco-system
  • Ensure proper technical design and documentation
  • Operate effectively in a dynamic and expanding environment, adapting to constant change, where fluid processes and creative solutions are valued
  • Apply your skills to elevate the technical standards and provide guidance on architectural decisions

Benefits

  • Competitive salary, equity, benefits, and perks for all full-time employees
  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (Country specific)
  • Retirement employer match
  • Learning & Development stipend to invest in your professional development
  • Turo host matching program
  • Turo travel credit
  • Cell phone and internet stipend
  • Paid time off to relax and recharge
  • Paid holidays, volunteer time off, and parental leave
  • In-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities (for in-office or hybrid employees)
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