Staff Software Engineer – Backend API

Your way to impact: 

You will be Improve and enhance an API that funnels funds like very few API’s in the world do. 
It is a great responsibility and opportunity to own such a vital infrastructure. 
Improving the latency (for example) by a ~10ms can cause a major change in the bottom line, the impact is unmatched. 

Your day to day: 

• Pair with engineers inside and outside the team to build and improve our services. 

• Collaborate, communicate and integrate with multiple engineering teams. 

• Develop a high-level view of the functions, usages, and needs of all of Braintree’s external APIs, and use this to drive architecture decisions. 

• Trace bugs and errors through multiple systems, including ones you don’t own, sometimes on behalf of customer-facing teammates. 

• Drive team discussions on technical strategy, system architecture, and component design. 

• Participate in all stages of the software development cycle, including design and development of significant new architectural systems and improvements. 

• Develop and maintain technical documentation. 

• Participate in 24/7 on-call team rotation of the services we own. 

What do you need to bring: 

• 7+ years of non-internship professional backend software development. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Deep GraphQL API backend experience and developing complex mutations. 

• Proficient in Java. 

• Excellent skills in complex technical problem-solving. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Solid understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures. 

• Ability to present technical problems to non-technical audiences. 

• Experience with Kubernetes. 

• Experience working in a large engineering environment, coordinating across multiple teams, and leading organization-wide projects.