Linktree

Senior Software Engineer, Growth (Payments)

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12 hours ago

Base Salary

$190k - $215k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Analyze, design, and implement enhancements to payment platforms and recurring payment flows.
  • Optimize payment processing pipelines to reduce latency and improve transaction speed, throughput, performance, and reliability.
  • Develop and maintain payment-processing and reconciliation APIs and integrate third-party payment providers, gateways, and payment methods.
  • Implement payment security measures, support fraud detection and prevention, and maintain compliance with payment industry standards.
  • Build monitoring and alerting systems, respond to payment-processing incidents, troubleshoot failures, and maintain logs and audit documentation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Proven software engineering experience focused on payment platforms and optimization.
  • Strong understanding of payment-processing workflows, protocols, security standards such as PCI DSS, and payment gateway APIs.
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, or C++.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants to prompt, validate, iterate on, and refine generated code.
  • Knowledge of database systems, payment data modeling, mobile payment technologies, cloud-based payment solutions, fraud prevention, risk management, and payments regulations.
  • Strong problem-solving, debugging, communication, teamwork, independence, and attention to detail.

Benefits

  • Fully remote or hybrid work with offices in London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and San Francisco.
  • Annual wellbeing allowance for fitness, development, childcare, travel, charitable donations, pet insurance, and home-office setup.
  • US-based employees receive 100% coverage of monthly medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance premiums, with 80% dependent coverage.
  • Employer retirement contributions, generous vacation and holiday time, parental leave, volunteer time, and other leave categories.
  • Employee stock option program.

Tech Stack

Categories

BackendGrowth Engineering
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About Linktree

201-500 employees

Linktree builds link-in-bio landing pages and tools that let creators, brands, and businesses share, sell, and track content across the web. It operates a freemium SaaS with paid tiers, integrations, and commerce features, plus a developer marketplace and mobile app. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Melbourne, it is among the web’s most visited destinations and is used by tens of millions of users worldwide.

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