Backend Product Software Engineer, Payments

Role Description

The Payments Team is responsible for building and maintaining Dropbox’s internal payments infrastructure — a robust, in-house alternative to third-party providers. The team supports all critical components of our financial ecosystem, including payment processing, authentication (e.g., 3DS), transaction flows, risk management, and revenue recognition.

As part of a strategic initiative to expand our global presence and to accelerate opportunities in Payments-driven revenue we’re building an entirely new Payments team based in Poland. The entire team, including engineering manager, product manager, and data scientist will be based on Poland. As a member of this new team, you’ll have the unique opportunity to shape the technical direction, culture, and processes of a high-impact engineering group from the ground up.

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Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional partners (Billing, Financial Data Engineering, etc.) to deliver reliable payments functionality.

• Design, build, test, and maintain backend services and APIs powering financial transactions.

• Work with metrics and logging systems to ensure visibility and observability of the payment infrastructure.

• Focused on delivering high-quality, production-grade code on time.

• Strong contributor to the team’s coding efforts and reviews.

• Work on well-defined problems with guidance from senior engineers.

On-call work may be necessary occasionally to help address bugs, outages, or other operational issues, with the goal of maintaining a stable and high-quality experience for our customers.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in software engineering or related industry roles.

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent technical experience.

• Professional experience in backend engineering, preferably with large-scale systems.

• Proficiency in any backend programming language (i.e. Python).

• Solid understanding of distributed systems, transactions, and service reliability.

• Strong communication skills, particularly when working across time zones.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with payment systems or financial transaction infrastructure.

• Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus).

• Passion for fostering technical growth within teams

• Experience with platforms like Databricks for data engineering and analytics is a plus.

Compensation

Poland Pay Range
212 500 zł—287 500 zł PLN