Sr. Back-end Developer in TECLA

We are seeking a Backend Software Developer on the Payments team. In this role, we will have a real opportunity to innovate, productize, and iterate at startup speed. We will take significant technical ownership for our Payments platform, building and scaling a checkout & payment experience for consumers. This role will involve both at-scale product innovation and new initiatives in the zero-to-one phase, directly contributing to our top-line growth and helping bring high-quality, affordable education to millions of learners across the globe. We will contribute to service architecture, product API development, and data modeling. The backend developers mostly work with modern Java (16+), MySQL, DynamoDB, gRPC, GraphQL (DGS), and Kafka within a microservices environment.

• 5+ years of experience working in a relevant software engineering role
• Expertise in designing highly-scalable and performant micro-services and storage layers using common frameworks, languages, and infrastructure (e.g., Java, MySQL, Cassandra, Solr, Kafka)
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving team environment (we deploy many times a day)
• Data-driven and strongly motivated by success and learnings through experiments and metrics analysis
• Experience in building and launching successful products, particularly with an understanding of defining and managing APIs and system and data architecture
• Strong commitment to our mission of transforming lives through learning

Preferred:

• Expertise in managing checkout & payments, including experience with payment gateways, APIs, and SDKs (e.g., Stripe, Braintree, Razorpay)
• Familiarity with mobile payments through Google Play Billing and Apple In-App Purchases
• Understanding of payment industry standards and regulations (PCI DSS, PSD2, 3DS 2.0)