Your natural leadership and drive to set technical direction directly match the role's expectation to act as a technical lead.
You excel at driving cross-team collaboration and ensuring projects move forward efficiently.
Your strategic vision helps you shape long-term technical direction for the payments team from the ground up.
You are comfortable mentoring engineers and fostering growth, a key part of this senior role.
You may need to temper your directness when collaborating with product managers and data scientists to maintain team harmony.

Role 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 our financial ecosystem, including payment processing, authentication (e.g., 3DS), transaction flows, risk management, and revenue recognition.

As part of a strategic initiative to expand our global presence and to accelerate opportunities in Payments-driven revenue we’re building an entirely new Payments team based in Poland. The entire team, including engineering manager, product manager, and data scientist will be based on Poland. As a member of this new 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.

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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.
Acts as a technical lead across projects and teams.
Sets long-term technical direction and ensures engineering excellence.
Drives cross-team collaboration and mentors engineers.
Develops intuitive product instincts and uses data to shape technical and product strategy.

On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues, with the goal of maintaining a stable and high-quality experience for our customers.

Requirements

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 (we’re using Python in Payments, but being language agnostic we know the language is mainly the tool).
Solid understanding of distributed systems, transactions, and service reliability.
Strong communication skills, particularly when working across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with payment systems or financial transaction infrastructure.
Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus).
Passion for fostering technical growth within teams
Experience with platforms like Databricks for data engineering and analytics is a plus.

Compensation

Poland Pay Range

333 200 zł—450 800 zł PLN

Senior Backend Product Software Engineer, Payments

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