# Backend Engineer — Payments Platform

**Company:** PayCore (fintech)
**Team:** Payments Platform

## About the role

PayCore processes millions of transactions every day. We're hiring a backend
engineer to design, build, and scale the services that move money — reliably,
observably, and securely.

## What you'll do

- Design and build **high-throughput backend services** for payment processing
- Work with **distributed systems** and **message queues (Kafka)**
- Optimize **PostgreSQL** performance at scale
- Ensure reliability, observability, and **PCI-compliant** handling of sensitive data
- Participate in the **on-call** rotation

## Requirements (must have)

- 3+ years of **backend engineering** experience
- Strong in **Go or Java** (Python acceptable)
- Experience with **distributed systems** and **high-throughput** services
- Proficient with **PostgreSQL**
- Familiarity with **message queues** (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with **observability / monitoring**

## Nice to have

- **PCI DSS** / payments compliance awareness
- Experience scaling systems to **high transaction volumes**
- Background in **payment systems or financial data**
