Staff Engineer Payments

Job Description

Company Description

OFX is a leading financial operations company providing businesses and accounting firms with real-time financial control and visibility to do business anywhere in the world. With an innovative platform and ²⁴⁄₇ human support, OFX automates and simplifies doing business across borders, reducing risk and eliminating routine operational tasks. Offering global business accounts, payments to 180 countries in 30+ currencies and currency risk management solutions to simplify global payments. OFX further enhances business operations by providing corporate cards with spend management, bill payments, vendor management, and integrations with popular accounting and HRIS software, to help achieve better business solutions so accounting firms and businesses thrive.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices globally, in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. OFX has been a trusted innovator in global money movement for over 25 years.

Job Description

The Staff Engineer, Payments role is for a hands-on engineer who loves to build. You will spend the majority of your time in the code - using LLMs to move fast and write high-quality software - while also setting the technical direction for the payments domain. This is not an architecture or management role. We want someone who is equally comfortable whiteboarding a system design and shipping production code the same day.

You will work collaboratively in an agile environment, participating in the design, development, testing, and deployment of applications across an event-driven AWS stack. This role involves taking ownership of the payments domain, driving engineering standards, engaging in code reviews, and continuously improving development practices in alignment with OFX guidelines.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with other Staff engineers, tech leads and engineering managers to deliver quality code and participate in code reviews
• Use an LLM to Write efficient, maintainable code that adheres to OFX coding standards and industry best practices
• Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team environment
• Identify and help address areas of technical debt and opportunities for refactoring
• Support agile team activities including deployments, QA, and level 3 support when needed
• Drive solution design discussions and contribute to proof-of-concept initiatives
• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders

Qualifications

What you bring

• 10+ years of commercial software development experience - with recent, hands-on coding as a core part of your day job. If you have moved fully into architecture or management, this role is likely not the right fit.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at a system or domain level - setting technical direction while remaining deeply embedded in the codebase.
• Some fluency with LLM-assisted development - you have started experimenting with AI tooling to move faster and write better code.
• Extensive hands-on experience with TypeScript and Node.js in a production environment.
• Deep knowledge of AWS serverless and event-driven services, including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and EventBridge.
• Experience building and deploying AWS infrastructure using CDK.
• Excellent understanding of event-driven design patterns, asynchronous messaging, and distributed systems trade-offs.
• Extensive experience with React.js, including building scalable, reusable UI components with appropriate testing
• Experience writing Architecture Decision Records, RFCs, or equivalent design documentation for a technical audience.
• A track record of cross-team influence - aligning engineers and stakeholders through written communication, design leadership, and technical credibility.
• Deep operational maturity - you think about observability, failure modes, and production behaviour before code ships.
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and demonstrably improving the capability of those around you.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies such as TDD, Kanban, and Shift Left.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and service-oriented architecture.
• Experience with unit testing and acceptance criteria frameworks.
• Familiarity with Git and GitHub for source control.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and configuration management.
• Exposure to container technologies such as Docker.
• Experience working with Design Language Systems.

Please include a cover letter specifically addressing your fitness for this role. We specifically  want to understand your hands-on engineering background with nodeJs/Typescript, React and your experience with event-driven AWS systems. Generic cover letters will not be considered.

Additional Information

What it’s like working at OFX

We’re OFXers because we want to make a difference. We see challenges as opportunities and we’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done. We’re committed to making things easier for our clients, pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the times so that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.

We operate as one team, cross-functionally and globally, to drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers. We’re curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others. We embrace change and use our initiative and resilience to overcome challenges.

• Always keep learning. We offer a wide range of learning and career development opportunities to help every OFXer build their capacity and career, with leadership training, secondments, internal mobility and access to a large library of online learning.
• Make a difference. Through our Make a Difference program, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them. We celebrate this with an annual volunteer day, which OFXers can use together or individually, as well as matched giving and the opportunity to nominate charity of choice every quarter.
• Reward and recognition. We recognise a job well done. OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers’ effort, technical expertise or support through a range of global and regional channels and awards, including quarterly and annual awards, milestones and shout outs.
• Showing our social side. Our Good Vibes employee-led committees around the globe organize events to help keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it’s a wellbeing activity, end of year celebration, or a monthly team get-together, our team wants you to feel welcome!
• Benefits that mean something. We offer a range of fantastic benefits, including primary and secondary gender neutral carer parental leave (16 weeks) or birthday leave, you’ll feel well-supported at OFX.
• A great work environment. Enjoy work-life balance and flexibility with our hybrid work model, in an inclusive, diverse and non-hierarchal culture.

At OFX, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible workplace where we value, respect, and encourage our people to be their authentic selves. With an employee base as diverse as the clients we serve, we know that fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to our continued success. If you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process, please email us at [email protected].

We encourage you to apply if this role aligns with your career aspirations.