Backend Developer (Payments)

Plan A Technologies is looking for a Backend Developer with experience in payments systems to join our team. In this role, you will focus on building, scaling, and maintaining high-performance transaction processing systems and backend infrastructure. While this is primarily a Backend position, full-stack capabilities are a welcome asset. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex financial and technical requirements into robust, secure, and production-ready code.

Please note: you must have at least 7+ years of experience with Golang to be considered for this role.

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, reliable backend services for transaction processing, ledgers, and financial integrations.
• Implement real-time data pipelines, manage event-driven architectures, and optimize relational database schemas.
• Design and manage distributed, containerized cron jobs and background workflows for processing scheduled financial data.
• Identify system bottlenecks, optimize end-to-end application performance, and ensure high availability of core services.
• Partner with product managers, finance teams, and other engineering stakeholders to deliver comprehensive, high-quality software solutions.

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong experience developing backend systems using Go (Golang).
• Proven experience working with event streaming and message brokers using Kafka.
• Demonstrated experience handling relational databases, complex schema design, and query optimization using PostgreSQL.
• Hands-on experience designing and managing containerized scheduled tasks using Kubernetes (K8s) cron.
• Core expertise in building backend systems, with Full-Stack (FS) capability considered a strong plus.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and analytical abilities.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
• Initiative and drive to do great things.

• Prior experience with payments and financial platforms such as Stripe, NetSuite, or Oracle.
• Experience with cloud-native monitoring and observability platforms like Chronosphere.
• Proficiency with Java (backend) or React (frontend).

Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.

Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com .

Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.

Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.

Benefits: Vacation, Brand New Laptop, and More: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule and other goodies.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!