Senior Full-Stack Developer- Payments

We’re looking for a Senior Back-end Engineer to join our Payments Infrastructure team.

This team builds the core systems that power payments, billing, tax, fraud detection, and financial reporting across all Elementor products.

As a senior member of the team, you’ll design and develop scalable, secure, and resilient backend systems that support millions of transactions and users worldwide. You’ll help define and implement APIs, services, and architecture that other product teams rely on, with a strong focus on reliability, extensibility, and compliance.

If you're passionate about backend architecture, financial systems, and building high-scale infrastructure, this is the role for you.

Work Environment:

What do we do?

Elementor is the leading website building platform for WordPress professionals.

Our vision is to empower web creators - developers, designers, and marketers, with the ability to create their futures one pixel at a time. We provide our users with everything they need to become successful web creators.

A new website is created every 10 seconds using Elementor!

Since we launched in Israel in 2016, we have expanded to more than 160 countries, with more than 18M websites powered by Elementor. More than 12% of all websites around the world are built using Elementor!

How do we do it?

At Elementor, we're building the future of web creation.

We believe in empowering both our employees and our users.

Elementor is a place where you can truly grow professionally and personally.

Creativity, friendship, curiosity, motivation, and professionalism are the driving force behind our journey. We take great pride in Elementor's constant scaling

Responsibilities:

Challenges

• Build brand-new infrastructure from scratch
• Own and leave your mark on our newest systems.
• Design and implement high-quality components that enable an outstanding product and user experience.
• Learn quickly and integrate new technologies across multiple products as needed.
  
  

• Design and implement back-end services that support the full payment lifecycle: authorization, capture, refunds, and reconciliation
• Integrate with multiple payment providers (e.g. Stripe, PayPal, local APMs) and financial services (e.g. tax engines, fraud detection tools)
• Own critical infrastructure components such as ledgers, transaction logs, wallet management, and settlement workflows
• Build internal APIs used by other product teams for monetization, checkout, and reporting
• Focus on security, compliance (e.g. PCI, GDPR), and observability
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Finance, Legal, and other engineering teams
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence
  
  

• 5+ years of experience as a back-end engineer building production systems
• Strong hands-on experience with Node.js (NestJS – a strong advantage)
• Proven experience designing and maintaining distributed systems or microservices architectures
• Solid understanding of event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing
• Deep knowledge of API design, performance optimization, and security best practices
• Experience working with relational and NoSQL databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, Redis)
• Experience with CI/CD and cloud-native environments (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, GCP)
• Strong testing discipline, including unit, integration, and E2E tests
• Strong English communication skills
  
  

• Experience with payment systems, financial flows compliance-sensitive domains.
• familiarity with tax engines (e.g. Avalara), 3DS, or fraud prevention tools