Staff Software Engineer UK

📋 Description Drive technical strategy across engineering domains and cross-team initiatives. Shape scalable architectures that support long-term product and business goals. Translate complex technical challenges into clear, practical solutions. Establish engineering standards, architectural patterns, and best practices across teams. Identify and mitigate long-term risks around reliability, scalability, security, and maintainability. Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations to influence roadmaps and delivery. 🎯 Requirements Extensive experience designing and operating highly available distributed backend systems. Proven success leading technical initiatives across multiple teams. Strong software architecture, system design, and engineering best practices. Experience with microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, relational databases, and AWS. Knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerisation, observability, and automated testing. Fluent English and strong communication; Java experience valued. 🎁 Benefits Global, diverse team across multiple countries. Equal opportunity employer promoting inclusion. Official Paymentology careers page for vacancies.