Staff Software Engineer

Nium, the Leader in Real-Time Global Payments 

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. With the onset of the global economy, its payments infrastructure is shaping how banks, fintechs, and businesses everywhere collect, convert, and disburse funds instantly across borders. Its payout network supports 100 currencies and spans 190+ countries, 100 of which in real-time. Funds can be disbursed to accounts, wallets, and cards and collected locally in 40 markets. Nium's growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries. Nium holds regulatory licenses and authorizations in more than 40 countries, enabling seamless onboarding, rapid integration, and compliance – independent of geography. The company is co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to work as a cross-platform Architect and hands-on technologist for our Fintech Platform teams to take our platform offerings to the next level. 

You will also lead our Enterprise Reliability initiatives to design, build and maintain highly available architectures for our Fintech Platforms. 

In this role, you will be working closely with Full stack teams across the Nium platform and ensuring that our systems are built from the ground up with security, stability and observability requirements. 

This role is a high impact, high visibility role, as you ensure that our customers get high quality software that is highly available, secure and performant. 

 Expectations include: 

Drive process and architectural changes that can help us maintain 99.99% uptime reliably, as we scale massively across Payment platforms. 

Work alongside the AWS Infrastructure team to ensure successful  adoption and rollout of gitops based EKS deployments across the entire org 

Work Cross-functionally with the engineering & QA leads across squads 

Develop AI-Enabled tools to automate workflows and streamline productivity across the orgs 

Own the Observability charter and develop cutting tools and frameworks for incorporating observability into the development culture 

Simplify and modernize our Automation Frameworks to integrate AI workflows and tighter integration with our Gitops based CI/CD workflow. 

What we offer at Nium  

We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work. 

We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office). 

We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.

We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!  

We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.  

For more detailed region specific benefits :  https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks 

For more information visit www.nium.com 

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