About Tipalti Tipalti is the leading finance automation platform helping high-growth and enterprise companies streamline global payables, strengthen compliance, and scale operations with efficiency and accuracy. Our engineering organisation builds highly reliable, secure, and performant systems that move billions of dollars annually and support customers across the world. As we continue to expand our global footprint, including our rapidly growing London engineering hub, we’re looking for a seasoned Staff Software Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and driving large-scale technical initiatives. Role Overview As a Staff Software Engineer at Tipalti, you will serve as a senior technical leader within the organisation—shaping the architecture, engineering standards, and long-term technical vision of your domain. You will lead high-impact initiatives across services and teams, mentor engineers, and partner with product and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, robust, and secure systems. This is a deep technical role with broad organisational influence. You will operate with autonomy, set direction, and raise the bar for engineering excellence. What You’ll Do Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and drive the technical strategy for complex, multi-service systems in a high-scale, fintech environment. Lead architectural design reviews, championing best-in-class patterns for reliability, observability, scalability, and security. Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tooling, and frameworks that accelerate engineering productivity and platform robustness. Execution & Impact Own end-to-end delivery of high-impact initiatives—from problem definition and design to rollout, adoption, and maintenance. Debug and solve the most challenging technical problems across the stack, often involving distributed systems, data pipelines, payments orchestration, or compliance workflows. Ensure systems meet stringent performance, accuracy, and regulatory requirements in a global payments environment. Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner closely with Product, Architecture, Security, and other Engineering teams to align business goals with scalable technical solutions. Influence roadmaps and prioritisation across multiple teams and lead consensus around complex trade-offs. Mentorship & Culture Coach, mentor, and elevate senior engineers, helping them grow into key technical contributors. Exemplify Tipalti’s engineering values: ownership, integrity, high quality, and customer impact. Promote engineering excellence through code reviews, RFCs, design guidelines, and technical standardisation. What We’re Looking For Required Qualifications 8 years of professional software engineering experience, with substantial experience building and scaling distributed systems. Demonstrated success as a Staff Engineer or equivalent technical leadership role. Deep proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g., Java, Kotlin, C#, Go, or similar). Strong architectural instincts, especially in designing resilient cloud-based microservices. Expertise in data modelling, storage systems, event-driven architectures, and high-throughput transactional systems. Ability to navigate ambiguity, make sound technical decisions, and influence without authority. Preferred Qualifications Experience in fintech, payments, ERP integrations, risk/fraud systems, financial compliance, or similar regulated domains. Familiarity with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security practices, and observability tooling. Strong written and verbal communication skills, comfortable writing RFCs and presenting architectural proposals. Track record of leading long-term technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams. Our Mission Our mission is to elevate how finance teams operate in the global economy. We empower our customers to scale faster and smarter by removing the complexities of doing global business and accelerating their finance operations efficiency. We are the AI-powered platform that automates finance. Tipalti is fueled by a commitment to our customers and a desire to build lasting connections. Our client portfolio includes high-velocity businesses such as Amazon Twitch, GoDaddy, Roku, WordPress.com, and ZipRecruiter. We work hard for our 99% customer retention rate which is built on trust, reliability and innovation. Tipalti means we handled it" - a mission to which we are constantly committed. Accommodations Tipalti champions inclusive teams, in which every voice counts. We are committed to recruiting diverse candidates with varied personal experiences and abilities. We welcome applications from candidates belonging to historically underrepresented or disadvantaged groups, and maintain an equitable Talent Acquisition process that is free from discrimination. As an equal opportunities employer, Tipalti complies with employment and human rights laws across the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Should you require reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the recruitment process, including access to alternate formats of materials, meeting spaces, or other accommodations that could better enable your full participation, please reach out to hr@tipalti.com for assistance. AI Use We may use artificial intelligence and automated systems (collectively "AI") to screen, assess, and select candidates during our recruitment process. This includes resume screening, skills assessment, and candidate matching. You have the right to request human review of any automated decision. For more information about how we collect and use personal data and information during recruitment, please refer to our Job Candidate Privacy Notice. For additional questions about our use of AI during our recruitment process, you can contact hr@tipalti.com. Privacy We are committed to protecting the privacy interests of job applicants and candidates. For more information about our privacy practices during our Talent Acquisition process, please refer to our Job Candidate Privacy Notice below: Job Candidate Privacy Notice | Tipalti www.tipalti.com/privacy/job-candidate-privacy-notice/