GoodLeap

Staff Software Engineer, Payments - Backend

GoodLeap

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • California, Florida

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Salary

💰 $173,000 - $200,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptMicroservicesNode.jsRuby on RailsTypeScript

About the role

  • About GoodLeap: GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018. GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America. Position Summary: We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our team that owns the core of our payments technology. In this role, you’ll help design, build, and scale both our payments platform and customer-facing payment products, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and performant. You’ll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver seamless payments experiences that power every transaction.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of back-end development experience with Node.js and TypeScript
  • Proven expertise in architecting complex distributed systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security
  • Extensive experience in designing and developing RESTful and APIs, including versioning, documentation, and performance optimization
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), including microservices, serverless, and containerized environments
  • Strong system design and architectural decision-making skills, balancing trade-offs between performance, maintainability, and business needs
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead engineering teams, fostering collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and technical excellence
  • Passion for writing clean, maintainable code and driving best practices in testing, CI/CD, and observability
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills, with a proven track record of influencing technical direction at scale