Sr. Software Developer I - Payment Processing

Job description

Established in 2004, we are a tech pioneer offering world-class adult entertainment and games on some of the internet’s safest and most popular platforms. With the support of an international team of dynamic and collaborative innovators, we are on a mission to enable safe user experiences and empower our communities by celebrating diversity, inclusion, and expression — all while maintaining robust trust-and-safety protocols. We embrace the best of both worlds! Local talent can thrive in our collaborative office space with the flexibility of a hybrid work environment, while remote team members play an integral role in shaping our dynamic culture from afar. We have offices in Montreal (Quebec), Austin (Texas) and Nicosia (Cyprus). **\*A select number of positions require full-time in office attendance\*** We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Developer to design, build, and operate mission-critical payment platform services that ensure secure, reliable, and high-performance transaction processing. In this role, you will work on high-volume payment integrations, distributed systems, and backend services that directly impact customer experience and company revenue. Beyond software development, you will play a key role in platform resilience by participating in incident management, troubleshooting complex production issues, and driving continuous improvements following incidents. **What you'll be doing:** - Design, develop, and maintain scalable services that support payment gateways, transaction processing, and financial workflows. - Build secure and resilient integrations with third-party payment providers and internal platforms. - Implement APIs, event-driven services, and microservices that meet the highest standards of performance, reliability, and security. - Write clean, maintainable, and thoroughly tested code while adhering to engineering best practices and development standards. - Conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship to promote engineering excellence across the team. - Enhance CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and developer tooling. - Optimize payment processing workflows to improve availability, scalability, performance, and transaction accuracy. - Participate in incident management, production support, and root cause analysis to continuously improve platform stability. **What you'll need to be successful:** **Must haves:** - Minimum of 5 years of professional backend development experience. - Strong proficiency in PHP 8.3, Node.js, and TypeScript. - Solid understanding of modern backend frameworks, protocols, and architectures, including gRPC (Spiral RoadRunner), REST APIs, Webhooks, microservices, and event-driven architectures. - Good knowledge of cloud environments and distributed systems, including Google Cloud Platform (Firestore, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run), Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm. - Strong skills in databases, caching solutions, and messaging technologies, including Firestore, PostgreSQL, Redis, Orleans, GCP Pub/Sub, and Node-RED. - Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools, such as Elastic APM and the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). - Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab), automated testing, and deployment best practices. - Knowledge of secure development principles, including OWASP Top 10 controls and secure coding practices. - Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in high-availability, mission-critical production environments. **Nice Haves:** - Expertise inpayment systems, transaction processing, or fintech integrations. - Experience with Jira and cross-tool automation. - Knowledge of payment industry standards, including PCI-DSS, tokenization, and 3D Secure. - Experience with incident response, on-call rotations, and production troubleshooting. **As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees** **In this role you may be exposed to adult content**