Staff Software Engineer, Payments

Turo•San Francisco, CA

8d•Hybrid

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. What you will do: 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 Along with your teammates, you’ll 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

Requirements

7+ 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
Along with your teammates, you’ll 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
For those who are in the office full-time or hybrid we have in-office lunch, office snacks, and fun activities
We are committed to building a diverse team. If you are from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.
Aside from an award winning work environment and the opportunity to be part of the world’s largest car sharing marketplace, we are also growing the team quickly - join us!
Even if you don't meet every qualification, we are looking for people with enthusiasm for what we do and we will consider you for this and other possibilities.