Senior Software Engineer - Payments (Crypto & Fiat)

Engineering@Easygo

Easygo leads the world in crafting top-tier entertainment experiences. Within our engineering organization, we foster a continuous learning environment, constantly pushing the boundaries of large-scale software design and development. Our culture revolves around fostering growth, nurturing learning, and upholding excellence in engineering, ensuring we consistently set the benchmark for engineering mastery.

Why join us?

Are you a passionate and ambitious software engineer ready to dive into an environment that fosters innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth? We're seeking talented individuals experienced working in the Fintech industry who are eager to tackle complex problems, build scalable solutions, and collaborate with some of the finest engineers in the entertainment industry.

About the Payments team:

The Payments team owns every aspect of how money moves in and out of our global entertainment product - from traditional fiat payments to crypto deposits, withdrawals, and on-ramping experiences that make digital assets accessible to millions of users globally. Operating within a platform handling ~4 billion requests per day, the team works on systems processing ~3,000 bets per second and ~95 billion bets annually, with transaction volumes continuing to grow by tens of millions every week.

Working closely with product managers, designers, and operational teams, you’ll build and evolve highly scalable transaction processing platforms, wallet infrastructure, and seamless payment experiences across both fiat and crypto ecosystems. The team is central to Stake’s global expansion efforts, enabling new markets, currencies, payment providers, and crypto capabilities as the platform continues to scale worldwide.

This is a true “you build it, you run it” engineering environment with end-to-end ownership - from shaping product features and architectural direction through to implementation, scalability, reliability, and operational excellence in production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with third-party payment providers or gateways and internal systems to architect and design payments infrastructure
• Architect and design scalable, high-performance payments system in alignment with project requirements and company standards.
• Optimise existing systems for performance, scalability, and reliability, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and inefficiencies.
• Actively engage in hands-on coding and development, ensuring code quality, scalability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, communicating technical concepts and project updates.
• Provide technical leadership, guiding and mentoring junior engineers in the team.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, focusing on scalable system design and development.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages and frameworks relevant to the role.
• Experience providing technical leadership, mentoring, and guiding teams.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to tackle complex technical challenges.
• Excellent communication skills for effective collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building global payments systems for gaming or entertainment
• Experience working with payments providers or equivalent payment processing systems
• Knowledge of PCI-DSS compliance in payment systems
• Experience building payments fraud system (e.g. decisioning / rule engine, chargeback tools)

Some of the perks of joining us:

• Building global, large-scale products handling hundreds of thousands of requests per second (over 4 billion requests daily), with the opportunity to help set the platform up for future scale.
• Innovate without the red tape - Have an idea on Monday and push it to production by Friday.
• Work alongside the top 5% of engineering talent in Australia, in a cloud native tech stack including AWS, Microservices, Distributed Systems, K8's, NATS, ArgoCD, Cloudflare, Datadog, Terraform, Nodejs/Typescript and Svelte.
• Explore your career options by growing with the business, moving laterally and vertically.
• EAP access for you and your family.
• 30 days of person leave bundled - use it how you like!
• Access to over 9,000 courses across our Learning and Development Platform.
• A full-time barista who will keep you caffeinated, or in optimal health with fresh juices and smoothies.
• Provided daily catered breakfast.
• Massage Wednesdays.
• Weekly team lunches and happy hour in the office from 4pm on Fridays.
• Fun office environment with pool tables, table tennis, all your favourite gaming consoles and our very own product testing tournaments.
• Paid volunteer day.
• Collaborate in the office 3 days per week, with flexible start and finish times suited to your lifestyle. 
• Unlimited access to drinks and snacks.

We believe that the unique contributions of everyone at Easygo are the driver of our success. To make sure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience we never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are passionate about providing a workplace that encourages great participation and an equal playing field, where merit and accomplishment are the only criteria for success.