pbThis position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Fintech based in Italy. /b /ppThis is a high-impact backend engineering role focused on rebuilding and scaling the financial systems at the heart of a rapidly growing global platform.br/You will own the architecture and implementation of a canonical payments, subscriptions, billing, and entitlement platform from the ground up.br/The role combines deep backend engineering with complex financial workflows spanning multiple payment gateways, legal entities, and currencies.br/You will work closely with Finance, Operations, and technical leadership to ensure every payment, entitlement, refund, and financial record is accurate and traceable.br/Your work will directly improve revenue integrity, accounting accuracy, customer entitlements, and business reporting.br/You will also lead a careful migration from legacy systems to a reliable, auditable platform without disrupting live customers or financial operations.br/This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex money-system problems where correctness, reliability, and data integrity are critical. /pbAccountabilities /bullipDesign and implement a canonical billing and entitlement ledger using an append-only, journals-as-truth architecture and PostgreSQL, ensuring every entitlement can be traced to a valid paid order. /p /lilipOwn the complete subscription lifecycle, including purchases, renewals, resubscriptions, upgrades, downgrades, plan changes, trials, cancellations, lapses, proration, and dunning across multiple payment gateways. /p /lilipBuild reliable payment gateway ingestion pipelines with idempotent and replay-safe webhook processing, normalization, dead-letter handling, and daily reconciliation between gateway records and internal books. /p /lilipImplement robust handling of refunds, chargebacks, disputes, credits,



and partial or zero-value settlements while preventing double counting and ensuring accurate allocation of payment amounts. /p /lilipCreate trustworthy financial and entitlement data pipelines supporting accounting close, revenue recognition, indirect tax requirements, exchange reporting, and conversion and retention analytics. /p /lilipOwn the customer-facing billing experience, including checkout and account management functionality, ensuring the frontend experience remains fully aligned with the underlying financial ledger. /p /lilipLead the migration of the live business from legacy account and billing models, including historical data backfills, parallel operation, reconciliation, validation, and controlled regional cutovers. /p /lilipEstablish engineering practices that prioritize financial correctness, auditability, observability, reliability, and safe operation under concurrency and scale. /p /li /ulh3Requirements /h3ullip6–10 years of backend engineering experience, with deep expertise in Go and strong relational database design and SQL skills. /p /lilipProven experience building or rebuilding payment, subscription, billing, and ledger systems end-to-end, including gateway integrations, idempotent webhooks, renewals, upgrades, proration, cancellation, dunning, refunds, and disputes. /p /lilipStrong understanding of financial systems surrounding payment ledgers, including reconciliation, revenue recognition, taxation, financial reporting, and append-only or event-sourced ledger architectures.



/p /lilipExperience designing systems where derived state is based on authoritative financial records and where transactions must remain accurate and auditable under concurrency. /p /lilipBackground working on B2B products involving complex billing, metering, plans, add-ons, multi-tenant environments, or partner billing. /p /lilipAdvanced SQL skills and the ability to independently investigate financial discrepancies and trace issues directly through underlying data. /p /lilipWorking knowledge of TypeScript, React, and modern frontend development, with the ability to build and maintain customer-facing billing and checkout experiences. /p /lilipExperience with multi-entity, multi-currency, or international billing is highly valuable, including familiarity with EU VAT/OSS, GST/IGST, or comparable tax frameworks. /p /lilipExperience with AWS Cognito, identity systems at scale, legacy data migrations, financial reconciliation, finance-close workflows, or trusted revenue-reporting pipelines is a plus. /p /lilipFintech or trading-industry experience is advantageous but not essential; strong payments and billing expertise is the priority. /p /lilipStrong ownership, analytical thinking, attention to detail, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate closely with finance, operations, and technical leadership. /p /lilipComfortable working in a fast-paced environment where financial correctness and system reliability have a direct impact on the business. /p /li /ulh3Benefits /h3ullipFull-time employment. /p /lilipRemote opportunity for Europe-based candidates. /p /lilipMinimal travel requirements. /p /lilipOpportunity to take ownership of a business-critical financial platform. /p /lilipDirect collaboration with senior technical, finance, and operations stakeholders. /p /lilipSignificant impact on payment reliability, revenue integrity, customer entitlements, and financial reporting. /p /lilipOpportunity to work on complex payment, subscription, ledger, and migration challenges at international scale. /p /lilipASAP start date. /p /li /ul #J-18808-Ljbffr

📌 Senior Backend Engineer - Payments & Fintech (Italia)
🏢 Lever
📍 Italia