About the position
Join one of the world's fastest growing fintech startups! We're looking for smart, motivated team members who want to change the way people pay their bills, helping them to improve their financial success. As a Senior Software Engineer, Platform, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and operating the critical backend services and APIs that power our innovative bill pay platform. Working in a dynamic startup environment, you'll leverage your expertise to build scalable, resilient, and secure systems. This role requires a blend of strong technical leadership, hands-on development, and a commitment to operational excellence, as you contribute to the core infrastructure that drives our company's success.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design of scalable, resilient, and maintainable backend services and APIs.
- Evaluate and recommend technologies, tools, and patterns to improve system performance and developer productivity.
- Participate in architectural reviews and contribute to the long-term technical vision of the platform.
- Develop, test, and deploy robust backend features and services using Ruby on Rails.
- Design, implement, and secure performant RESTful APIs, ensuring consistency and usability.
- Write clean, efficient, well-documented, and well-tested code.
- Own the full lifecycle of your services, from design and development to deployment and operation.
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation schedule to respond to and resolve critical production issues outside of standard business hours.
- Contribute to improving CI/CD pipelines and overall operational excellence.
- Collaborate effectively with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to determine requirements and deliver solutions.
- Stay current with industry trends and advancements in backend development and cloud technologies.
- Participate in thorough and constructive code reviews, both providing and incorporating feedback to ensure high-quality software development.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing complex software systems, particularly high-traffic web applications.
- Experience with backend development using Ruby on Rails or similar modern MVC web frameworks and object-oriented programming languages (e.g., Python/Django, PHP/Laravel, Node.js/Express).
- Experience with designing, building, and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL).
- Proficiency with Git (including branching strategies and collaborative workflows) and continuous delivery practices.
- Experience building and maintaining background jobs (e.g., Sidekiq, Delayed Job, SQS).
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Experience within the Fintech industry.
- Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Datadog).
- Solid understanding of microservices architectures.
- Experience with pub/sub messaging patterns and systems (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis Streams).
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for full-time employees.
- Generous equity grants.
- 401(k) match to help you save for your future.
- 15 days PTO to start, plus paid holidays.
- Charitable donation match.
- Pet insurance.
