Paymenttools is on a mission to transform the payment landscape for retailers in Europe. With more than 4,4 billion visitors per year in our more than 15,000 REWE Group stores and travel agencies in 21 countries we know exactly what consumers and merchants need when exchanging goods for money. We strongly believe in making payments seamless and invisible, linking them with value added services within the framework of a reliable identity service. Our mantra: #wesolvepayn. We blend cutting-edge technology with stringent security to protect sensitive payment data while nurturing innovation in a cloud-native tech environment.
As a Staff Engineer, you will lead critical technical initiatives in our core payments domain, directly shaping how users pay at merchants - whether it’s tapping a phone in-store, checking out online, or using a digital wallet. Your work ensures these transactions are fast, secure, and seamless across millions of payment moments. You are crafting the backbone of a payment platform that prioritizes security, scalability, reliability, and business impact. You’ll operate across teams, systems, and stakeholder boundaries to deliver meaningful outcomes.
Your Tasks
- You build scalable, high-performance payment services that power every checkout, refund, and merchant onboarding - reliable, fast, and compliant.
- You take technical ownership of cross-team initiatives, drive implementation, and lead by example - through code, design reviews, or hands-on pairing.
- You ensure stability and security in production, owning availability, scalability, and operations - especially when it matters most.
- You improve developer workflows by optimizing CI/CD, testing, observability, and internal tooling - helping teams ship faster and more confidently.
- You lead through action - offering feedback, sharing knowledge, coaching peers, and setting technical standards without formal authority.
- You understand how payments flow end-to-end and optimize backend systems to reduce failures, speed up onboarding, and improve the user experience.
- You shape not just what we build, but how we build - influencing engineering culture, hiring, and long-term quality across the team.
Your Experience
- Proven track record as a Staff Engineer or senior Individual Contributor leading technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams
- Hands-on expertise in building secure, scalable services (preferably in fintech or regulated industries)
- Deep domain knowledge in distributed systems, event-driven architecture, or payment infrastructure
- Experience with Kotlin or Java, Spring Boot, and cloud platforms (preferably Google Cloud Platform)
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS, PSD2, or similar frameworks is a strong plusStrong communication and collaboration skills - across engineering, product, and business
- Fluent English language, German language is not required (but a plus for client-facing collaboration)
Our Benefits
- Deutschland ticket, subsidized subscription
- 1.000 euro annual learning and development budget + internal training platforms
- Discounts on travel, fashion, technology, and more through our corporate benefits
- REWE discount card for REWE group retailers
- JobRad, affordable bicycle leasing
- Company pension plan
- Insurance services
Perks of Working With Us
- Hybrid working environment
- Flexible working hours that fit your workflow, your time matters
- Language courses (English and German)
- Responsibility from day one
- Work with modern and agile software such as Google Workspace, Slack, Asana, Jira, Lattice, Miro and Confluence
- Company events including Hackathons and Company Days
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We are looking forward to getting to know you - so, even if you feel that you don’t quite meet all the requirements, but the position still excites you and you think you would love to work with us, please reach out! We would still love to hear from you. We explicitly encourage applicants within groups that are underrepresented in tech spaces as of today. We value all kinds of backgrounds and walks of life.
