Staff Software Engineer - Banking and Money Movement
MQ Referrals Only
$174,700–$218,400from the description
Jul 2, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level backend engineering role on a team responsible for financial services infrastructure — covering areas such as account creation, transaction processing, payment systems, and reconciliation. The work involves leading architecture and design of large-scale distributed systems, driving multi-milestone technical initiatives, and mentoring other engineers. Suited to someone with deep backend and payments or fintech experience who can operate independently on complex, ambiguous problems.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 27,900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 11,700–41,800
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The JD requires 8+ years of backend engineering experience (the overall years minimum of 8) and separately calls out 3+ years in payments or FinTech — the latter is treated as a domain-level hard gate given its placement in the 'Who You Are' requirements block.
Java and Python are listed together as examples of required backend expertise ('e.g., Java, Python'); Java is used as the primary name with Python as an alternative since both are cited in the same breath. Python also reappears independently under Nice to haves, which is noted but does not change its required status as a backend language gate.
The relational database requirement names MySQL, Postgres, MS SQL Server, and Oracle as interchangeable examples; MySQL is used as the primary with the others as alternatives.
AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform all appear exclusively under 'Nice to haves' and are marked preferred accordingly.
Compensation figures reflect the National tier only ($174,700–$218,400/year); the posting notes higher Premium and Premium Plus tiers exist for higher cost-of-living areas but does not publish those ranges.
The role is genuinely Staff-level: the JD explicitly titles it 'Staff Software Engineer' and describes cross-team technical leadership, org-wide architectural influence, and roadmap ownership — consistent with the Staff band.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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