Staff Engineer - Trust & Vault

Remote · Full Time · Individual Contributor · +8 Years of Experience

Staff Engineer, Trust & Vault

Who We Are

Yuno is the AI-native operating system of global commerce, powering the financial infrastructure of enterprise merchants, banks, and wallets. Through a single API, Yuno connects them to pay-ins, payouts, fraud prevention, KYC/KYB, and stablecoins globally, so they can operate everywhere. Agnostic by design and connected to 1,000+ payment methods and 460+ integrations in 190+ countries, Yuno optimizes acceptance rates, reduces costs, and strengthens security through specialized AI agents that learn from every transaction. Global brands including McDonald's, NetEase Games, GoFundMe, and Rappi run their payments on Yuno.

About The Role

Yuno is looking for a Staff Engineer to be the senior technical leader for Trust & Vault — the domain that secures card data and optimizes how it's used across every transaction on the platform. You'll architect the foundational systems behind PCI-compliant card vaulting and tokenization, card authentication (3DS, network tokenization), and the optimization capabilities that lift authorization and acceptance rates, and raise the technical bar for the pod that builds them.

This is a hands-on leadership role in a zero-tolerance-for-failure environment. You'll design and build bank-grade, resilient capabilities, champion a "You Build It, You Run It" culture where your team owns its services from code to production, and turn the hardest problems in card-data security and payment optimization into elegant, maintainable architecture.

What This Domain Owns

Card vaulting & tokenization — tokenize, store, and retrieve raw card data within the PCI boundary

Authentication — 3DS / SCA and network tokenization to authenticate cardholders and strengthen every transaction

Payment optimization — lift authorization and acceptance rates through network tokens, account updater, and intelligent use of vaulted data

Account updater & portfolio migration — keep stored card credentials current to reduce declines, and migrate card portfolios between vaults and processors

How AI Shows Up in This Role

The tokenization, authentication, and vaulting layer you own is foundational infrastructure for an AI-native platform — the secure card-data foundation every transaction, including agent-driven flows, depends on

AI is our default execution layer: you're expected to use AI-assisted tooling fluently across design, implementation, testing, and review, and to shape how the domain adopts it

Your Contribution Will Be

Domain architecture and technical leadership — own the architecture of Trust & Vault across vaulting, authentication, optimization, account updater, and portfolio migration; set the technical direction with versioned APIs and event-driven design, and raise the bar for the pod

Card-data security and vaulting — architect the systems that tokenize, store, and retrieve raw card data within the PCI boundary, safely and at scale

Authentication — build and evolve authentication capabilities (3DS/SCA, network tokenization) that strengthen transactions without adding friction

Payment optimization — design capabilities that lift authorization and acceptance rates — network tokens, account updater, and smart use of vaulted data — turning secure card data into better payment outcomes

Bank-grade, resilient systems — design headless, PCI-compliant capabilities engineered for a zero-tolerance-for-failure environment, where feature velocity never compromises reliability or compliance

You Build It, You Run It — champion a YBIYRI culture: your team designs for multi-tenancy, elastic scaling, and automated observability, and owns its microservices in production

Mentorship and cross-functional collaboration — mentor engineers and partner with Product, the CTO Office, and Staff Engineers across domains to eliminate silos and deliver complex, cross-team work

What Success Looks Like

Within your first 6–12 months, you've led the architecture of at least one core Trust & Vault capability (vaulting, authentication, or optimization), your pod owns its services in production under a YBIYRI model, and you're the technical voice Yuno trusts on card-data security, authentication, and PCI-compliant design.

Skills You Need

Minimum Qualifications

Extensive software engineering experience, with deep expertise in Go and/or Kotlin (our core backend stack) and strength across the full stack

A proven track record architecting robust, scalable, and maintainable distributed systems — event-driven platforms, APIs (gRPC/REST), and cloud-native or serverless architectures — with a strong grasp of design patterns and best practices

Experience building foundational platform capabilities or complex distributed systems, ideally involving tokenization, card vaulting, authentication (3DS / network tokenization), or PCI-scoped infrastructure

Strong experience with AWS and cloud-native services (RDS, ECS, EKS, S3, and similar)

Excellent automated testing practices — unit, integration, and end-to-end — within Agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD workflows

Proven technical leadership — mentoring engineers, driving technical vision, and delivering complex, cross-team projects, with a feel for DORA metrics and unblocking teams

A preference for clean, modular architecture over monolithic shortcuts, and the judgment to balance reliability and compliance against feature velocity

English — advanced proficiency, written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications

Domain expertise — PCI DSS card vaulting, tokenization and network tokenization standards, 3DS/SCA authentication, or account updater services from card networks

Payment optimization — improving authorization and acceptance rates through tokenization, authentication, or credential lifecycle

Experience in the payments or fintech industry, operating at global scale

Performance optimization and efficient algorithms for high-throughput, low-latency systems

Static analysis and code-quality tooling (e.g., SonarQube) and mature CI/CD pipelines

Nice to Have

A track record of introducing new engineering practices or standards across multiple teams

Open-source contributions or technical writing that raised the bar for others

Spanish proficiency

Tech Stack

Languages — Go and Kotlin (core), Java

APIs — gRPC, REST

Frameworks — Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux; Go standard library

Messaging — Apache Kafka, SQS

Databases — PostgreSQL, Redis

Infrastructure — AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform

Observability — Datadog, OpenTelemetry

CI/CD — GitHub Actions, ArgoCD

Version Control — Git / GitHub

What We Offer at Yuno

Competitive Compensation

Remote Work — you can work from everywhere

Home Office Bonus — a one-time allowance to set up your ideal home office

Work Equipment

Stock Options

Health Plan wherever you are

Flexible Days Off

Language, Professional, and Personal Growth courses