
Staff Software Engineer – Payments
PayJoy
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $310,392 - $324,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Solve Critical Problems: Identify, prioritize, and solve technical challenges impacting growth.
- Lead and Collaborate: Architect new solutions, Implement newer patterns/framework that other candidates can use and implement, Identify potential systemwide solutions, guide teams, ensuring solutions meet business goals and technical standards.
- Mentor & Develop: Foster a culture of learning, guiding junior engineers.
- Innovate & Improve: Drive continuous improvement in our platform and processes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline such as computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience as Software Engineer, in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Strong expertise in backend development with proficiency in Python; as well both relational and NoSQL databases.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, system design principles.
- A can-do attitude and creative, flexible problem solving abilities, and the ability to think critically in ambiguous situations.
- Being a team player, that includes review, pair programming, collaboration in one task, mentoring or being mentored.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Desirable experience with mobile technologies or mobile payment systems with the fraud and identity aspects of fintech, as well in building and maintaining large-scale systems used by millions of users.
Benefits
- 100% Company-funded health insurance for employee and immediate family
- Company-funded employee life and disability insurance
- $2,000 USD annual Co-working Travel perk
- $2,000 USD annual Professional Development perk
- $340 Monthly Commuter benefit
- 401k Contribution of 3% of salary (up to IRS limits)
- Headphone benefit, home office equipment allowance and wellness perks
- Catered lunches
- 20 Paid vacation days, unlimited sick leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonbackend developmentrelational databasesNoSQL databasesdistributed systemssystem design principlescloud platformsAWSGCPAzure
Soft Skills
problem solvingcritical thinkingteam playermentoringcollaborationcommunicationcreativityflexibilityleadershipcontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceBachelor’s degree in software engineering