Software Engineer England, United Kingdom

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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,…