Tipalti Software Engineer interview experience

I was given a design-style question that focused on how payments-related parts of the system work, especially the flow between services.

A specific scenario that stood out was transferring funds from the company to a bank, where I had to reason about the end-to-end process rather than just a single API call. I also ended up doing a timed home assignment where the prompt was framed like a Traveling Salesman-type problem and had to be completed in a couple of hours. It was the kind of round where I could tell they weren’t just checking whether I could code, but whether I could translate