Senior Backend Engineer, Payments Reliability
Own the settlement pipeline that moves $40M a day for 3,000 small lenders.
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Tallyhouse runs payouts for independent lenders. The pipeline works, but 4% of daily settlements need a retry and on-call is noisy. This person makes it boring: fewer retries, fewer pages, and a payout API partners can call twice without paying twice.
Cut failed settlement retries from 4% to under 1% by end of Q2
Ship payout API v2 with idempotency keys by March
Bring payments pages from about 5 to under 2 a week
Designing idempotent APIs for money movement
Debugging distributed queues in production
Postgres performance on very large tables
Writing incident reviews that change practice
Correctness over delivery speed
Proven tools over new frameworks
No frontend work; the web team owns it
Toronto, or within UTC−5 to UTC−8
Hybrid
CAD 175–195k base + equity
Engineering
Six engineers reporting to Priya Raman, payments lead. On-call is one week in six. Two in-office days a week at the King St office.