Staff Engineer for Bank API and Partner Integrations — Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

Overview

Take technical ownership of the API connections that link a bank-payment network with banks, banking technology providers and data aggregators. This staff engineering role covers service architecture, partner integration contracts and production reliability, including the handling of customer consent and access tokens.

Requirements

• The role typically requires ten or more years developing and operating production software, with staff-level ownership of important systems.
• Relevant experience includes financial infrastructure, bank or aggregator APIs, distributed systems and Java or a comparable backend language.
• Daily use of AI coding tools is expected alongside accountable human review.

Responsibilities

• The initial work requires learning an established codebase and turning that understanding into clear design documents, interface definitions and operating runbooks.
• Use those foundations to direct improvements, review implementation work and maintain integration testing as the platform evolves.
• Partner certification and readiness for open-banking requirements form part of the domain.
• Operational responsibility stays with the engineering team.
• Own service health, on-call response, incident investigation and fixes that address recurring causes.
• Strengthen observability and make tradeoffs around consistency, concurrency and idempotency explicit.
• Work across existing engineering teams to transfer knowledge and help build the group that will maintain the domain over time.

Conditions

• The position is hybrid in San Francisco, with office attendance Tuesday through Thursday.