Candidate shortlist
Senior Backend Engineer, Payments
Remote · US / UK
Screened for payments infrastructure · distributed systems · Go or Rust
Liang Chen
InterviewStaff Software Engineer · Northwind Pay · Amsterdam
Strong payments-infrastructure fit. Ran the ledger migration end to end; the open question is team leadership, not depth.
Ran the ledger migration at Northwind Pay and cut reconciliation time in half.
“We cut the reconciliation window from six hours to twenty minutes.”interview notes
“Moved the ledger from a nightly batch to a streaming reconciliation path.”CV · payments infrastructure
How did the team decide what to keep synchronous? Have you led a team through a platform rewrite?
Priya Nair
ConversationPayments Engineer · Plaid · London
Strong card-network operator; less platform depth.
Owned the card-network integration for a product that processes live payments across six markets.
“The hard part was not the API. It was making failure states legible to support.”screening call
What did you change after the first incident review?
Marco Rossi
ConversationSenior Backend Engineer · Cloudflare · Milan
Strong engineer; less payments domain depth.
Built the reconciliation service that replaced a nightly batch with a streaming path.
“We moved the ledger from a nightly batch to a streaming reconciliation path.”CV · payments infrastructure
What would you do differently if you started it again?