Staff Engineer

About Payoneer Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world’s underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We’re a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories. By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows–including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence–we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.   Staff Engineer Role summary   Israel   Hybrid   Full-time     The Modernization Team mandate is to identify and solve the deepest, most systemic architectural challenges in the platform problems that are too strategic and cross-cutting for any single product team to own, yet too impactful to leave unresolved.   We are not a feature team. We do not own a single service or product surface. Instead, we operate as a platform-level force multiplier: we take on the hardest problems, build shared solutions and tooling, and enable every product team at Payoneer to move faster and more safely.   This is a brand-new team being built from the ground up. You will have an outsized opportunity to shape how we work, what we prioritize, and the engineering culture we create together.   What you’ll do   As a Staff Software Engineer on the Modernization Team, you will tackle the deepest, most systemic architectural challenges in Payoneer’s platform owning end-to-end migrations, building shared infrastructure, and creating the tooling that enables every product team to move faster and more safely.   The Modernization Team operates with a native agentic mindset this is not an add-on or an experiment; it is core to how we build. We apply AI-assisted development across every phase of our work: automated code generation, AI-driven migration scripts, intelligent test generation, code review, and documentation. Our goal is not just to write code faster it is to build tooling that multiplies the output of every engineer working on modernization challenges.   Who You Are   6+ years of experience in backend engineering in Node.js with strong fundamentals and production experience.   Solid experience and understanding of distributed systems: messaging, caching, microservice communication patterns, and failure modes.   Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure comfortable with the ecosystem even if not expert level in every service.   Ability to own complex technical work end to end, from design through production.   Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, or equivalent) as a day-to-day engineering practice not a nice-to-have.   Proven track record of driving architectural decisions with cross-team impact you have moved systems forward, not just improved them incrementally.   Experience with large-scale migration programs: decomposing monoliths, rearchitecting data layers, or migrating messaging infrastructure in production environments.   Strong communication skills; comfortable working across team boundaries.   Nice to have:   .NET background, especially if you have migrated services from .NET to a modern stack.   Experience building or operating shared platform infrastructure consumed by multiple teams.   Familiarity with event-driven architecture patterns: outbox pattern, saga pattern.   #LI-LF1 The Payoneer Ways of Working   Act as our customer’s partner on the inside Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.   Do it. Own it. Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.   Continuously improve Always striving for a higher standard than our last.   Build each other up   Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.   If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.