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Senior Backend Product Software Engineer, Payments
OpenSenior Backend Product Software Engineer, Payments
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Dropbox
Productivity Tools
Experience Level
Senior
Salary Range (PLN)
333,200 – 450,800
Job Deadline
Not specified
About Company
Dropbox is a global productivity platform helping hundreds of millions of people manage, share, and collaborate on content seamlessly. A Virtual First company that operates as a living lab for designing a more enlightened way of working. Beyond core file sync and storage, Dropbox is driving innovation with offerings like Dash, its AI-powered knowledge management engine, Dropbox Sign, and DocSend. The Engineering team thinks like a startup but builds for an enterprise, with infrastructure spanning multiple data centers and processing exabytes of data.
Job Description
The Payments Team is responsible for building and maintaining Dropbox's internal payments infrastructure — a robust, in-house alternative to third-party providers. The team supports all critical components of the financial ecosystem, including payment processing, authentication (3DS), transaction flows, risk management, and revenue recognition. As part of a strategic initiative to expand global presence and accelerate Payments-driven revenue, Dropbox is building an entirely new Payments team based in Poland. As a founding member of this team, you'll have the unique opportunity to shape the technical direction, culture, and processes of a high-impact engineering group from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional partners (Billing, Financial Data Engineering, etc.) to deliver reliable payments functionality.
- Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering financial transactions.
- Work with metrics and logging systems to ensure visibility and observability of the payment infrastructure.
- Act as a technical lead across projects and teams.
- Set long-term technical direction and ensure engineering excellence.
- Drive cross-team collaboration and mentor engineers.
- Develop intuitive product instincts and use data to shape technical and product strategy.
- Participate in on-call rotations occasionally to address bugs, outages, or operational issues.
Qualifications
- 9+ years of experience in software engineering or related industry roles.
- Professional experience in backend engineering, preferably with large-scale systems.
- Proficiency in any backend programming language (Python is used in Payments; language-agnostic mindset preferred).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, transactions, and service reliability.
- Strong communication skills, particularly when working across time zones.
Skills
PythonBackend EngineeringDistributed SystemsPayments InfrastructureAPIs3DS AuthenticationRisk ManagementGrafanaPrometheusDatabricksObservabilityMentoring