Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and operate core systems across the backend and frontend stack. You will lead end-to-end development of product features and architect scalable backend services and APIs.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end development of product features from design through deployment and ongoing support.
• Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs (TypeScript/Node.js).
• Contribute to frontend development using modern frameworks.
• Design systems with reliability, observability, and maintainability in mind.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, CX, and Integrations teams.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold high standards for code quality and system design.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling, and documentation to support scale.
• Help shape technical decisions and engineering culture.

Required qualifications

• 5+ Years of Experience in Product Engineering
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale
• Ability to lead engineering design on any project
• Ability to handle ambiguous, underspecified problems
• Ability to encode expertise for an agentic context with context files, evals, and patterns
• Ability to speak cross-functionally without jargon

Nice to have

• React preferred
• Experience at an Early Stage Startup (Seed, Series A, Series B)
• Experience in FinTech (Or Other Regulated Industries)
• Experience as a People Manager and/or Technical Lead

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Equity
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (with HSA & FSA Plans Available)
• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Paid Company Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• 1-2 Onsites Per Year
• Membership in an Ambitious, Kind, No-Drama Team

Before you apply

• Meadow does not currently offer visa sponsorship for this role.

About the company

Meadow is the modern payments platform for higher education that simplifies the entire student financial experience. They are building for universities what Shopify built for retail businesses.