Senior Software Engineer, Payments – Frontend

GoodLeap

Senior Software Engineer developing customer-facing payment products for GoodLeap. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure security, reliability, and performance in fast-paced environment.

Posted 5/26/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $146,000 - $170,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudMicroservicesReactTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance frontend applications that power GoodLeap’s payments experience across web platforms, ensuring secure and seamless customer interactions.
Own end-to-end delivery of features—from technical design through implementation, testing, and deployment—operating with a high degree of autonomy and accountability within a fast-moving team environment.
Partner closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive, reliable, and delightful payment experiences, driving alignment while maintaining strong engineering standards.
Solve complex frontend challenges related to performance, scalability, resiliency, and security, particularly within payments and financial workflows.
Establish and uphold best practices in frontend architecture, code quality, testing, and observability, including writing comprehensive unit and integration tests.
Contribute to and evolve shared frontend systems (e.g., design systems, component libraries, micro-frontend architecture) to enable high team velocity and consistency across products.
Proactively identify opportunities to improve developer experience, tooling, and processes, enabling the team to move faster while maintaining high quality.
Stay current with emerging trends, technologies, and innovations in the payments space, and proactively bring new ideas and perspectives to the team to continuously improve our products and user experience.
Operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly empowered team, where engineers are trusted to make decisions, challenge assumptions, and drive outcomes with minimal overhead.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of front-end software development experience using TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS, building scalable and maintainable user interfaces.
Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and third-party services (e.g., Stripe or other payment platforms), with an understanding of secure data handling in financial applications.
Strong ability to design and implement performant, scalable, and resilient frontend architectures in complex, production environments.
Experience working in cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS) and collaborating with backend systems built on microservices architectures.
Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with a passion for clean code, continuous improvement, and delivering high-quality user experiences.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and benefits package

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Hard Skills & Tools

TypeScriptReactHTMLCSSRESTful APIspayment platformsfrontend architectureunit testingintegration testingmicroservices

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationclean codecontinuous improvementproblem-solvingautonomyaccountabilityteamworkadaptabilityinnovation