3 months ago
Base Salary
$225k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build payout and money-movement systems with onboarding, KYC, country and payout-method support, webhook reconciliation, retries, rate-limit handling, zero-downtime rollouts, and full auditability.
- Build payment and incentives infrastructure for compensating, rewarding, and retaining fellows across projects.
- Develop Trust & Safety systems for KYC and re-verification, sanctions and fraud screening, ban and suspicious-account transitions, and time-tracking audits.
- Own the Pay admin dashboard, ledger, and operational tooling used to run pay cycles safely.
- Lead schema design, migrations, backfills, and safe deployment rollouts across PostgreSQL.
- Set engineering practices through system design reviews, incident response, runbooks, observability, code review, architectural guidance, and mentoring.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including meaningful ownership of production systems where correctness and uptime matter.
- Strong system design fundamentals for reliable, zero-downtime, auditable, and resilient systems, including migrations, idempotency, retries, backfills, audit logs, and reconciliation jobs.
- Deep proficiency with PostgreSQL, relational databases, data modeling, and schema evolution under load.
- Strong backend skills in Ruby on Rails and/or TypeScript/Node, with willingness to work across both, plus comfort with React.
- Experience designing and operating asynchronous workflows such as Temporal or Sidekiq and integrating with third-party APIs such as Stripe, Deel, and Hubstaff.
- Track record of leading technical projects end-to-end, shipping behind feature flags, and verifying changes in production.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, including partnership with Operations, Finance, Legal, and Compliance.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
- Preferred experience includes production payments or money movement, Trust & Safety, fraud, KYC/AML, sanctions screening, identity verification, event sourcing, change-data-capture, audit-log architectures, workflow orchestration, and regulated or compliance-driven workstreams such as 1099-NEC, OFAC, GDPR, or SOC 2 controls.
Benefits
- Equity in a fast-growing company; 401(k) match, competitive compensation, and financial coaching; paid parental leave, fertility benefits, and parental coaching; medical, dental, vision, and mental health support; $500 wellness stipend; $2,000 learning stipend; commuting support, free lunch, and gym access in the San Francisco office; flexible PTO, 15 holidays, and 2 flex days; team outings and referral bonuses.
- Benefits listed apply to full-time US employees.