Sr. Staff Engineer - Payments & Commerce Platform
HighLevel (company site, opens in a new tab)10+ yrsRemoteDirect career pageEst. 40–65 LPA
Posted on 6 Sept
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About This Role
- Architect and deliver multi-tenant, planet-scale services for commerce platform including payments, subscriptions, invoicing, and tax, ensuring correctness, auditability, and high performance.
- Own API and schema design standards and reliability engineering practices to guarantee resilience, availability, and error boundary management across core payment paths.
- Lead technical strategy, practice leadership, and cross-functional collaboration to evolve core commerce domain, maintain risk register, and support hiring and team growth without direct reports.
Minimum Requirements
- 10+ years building and operating backend systems, with at least 5+ years in Go, and 2–3+ years at Staff/Principal IC or Tech Lead level on critical paths.
- Deep expertise with protobuf, ConnectRPC/gRPC API lifecycle management, distributed systems fundamentals, event-driven architectures on GCP, and Kubernetes/GKE operations at scale.
- Strong reliability engineering skills including SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, incident management, and security/compliance knowledge including PCI basics and data governance.
- Work Experience Required: 10+ years in backend development including critical leadership roles. Notice period: Not explicitly mentioned in the JD.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Experienced principal-level engineer comfortable with high-impact distributed system design and operational ownership for payment and commerce domains.
- Strong operator of reliability engineering, API/data governance, and security/compliance practice within cloud-native, multi-region environments.
- Skilled collaborator who can influence cross-functional teams on technical strategy, hiring, and scaling organizational capabilities without direct reports.