Senior Backend Engineer
Pubblicato il 09-10-2026 - Lever in Verona
This 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.
This is a high-impact backend engineering role focused on rebuilding and scaling the financial systems at the heart of a rapidly growing global platform.
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You will own the architecture and implementation of a canonical payments, subscriptions, billing, and entitlement platform from the ground up.
The role combines deep backend engineering with complex financial workflows spanning multiple payment gateways, legal entities, and currencies.
You will work closely with Finance, Operations, and technical leadership to ensure every payment, entitlement, refund, and financial record is accurate and traceable.
Your work will directly improve revenue integrity, accounting accuracy, customer entitlements, and business reporting.
You will also lead a careful migration from legacy systems to a reliable,
auditable platform without disrupting live customers or financial operations.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who enjoys solving complex money-system problems where correctness, reliability, and data integrity are critical.
Accountabilities
- Design 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.
- Own the complete subscription lifecycle, including purchases, renewals, resubscriptions, upgrades, downgrades, plan changes, trials, cancellations, lapses, proration, and dunning across multiple payment gateways.
- Build 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.
- Implement ro