Senior Software Engineer, Payments

The role

You will own the engineering of a payments platform that processes at least $3 billion through the company's platform, working with a small team. The work is mainly integration, orchestration and tracking across third-party fintech partners, plus consolidating and refactoring a legacy payments system.

What you will do

• Consolidate and refactor a payments system built from many legacy integrations
• Build and maintain integrations across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll and the billing platform
• Own the orchestration and tracking/reconciliation layer across third-party fintech partners
• Design for correctness first, because money movement demands it
• Work directly with customers to understand real-world failure modes and edge cases
• Partner daily with product to build, ship, measure and iterate
• Build within the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services

Required qualifications

• Senior engineer with a strong payments background
• Real experience building payment systems and integrations
• Exceptionally high attention to detail
• Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking and cards
• Excited to be close to the build and close to customers
• Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action
• Uses AI tools and figures things out independently

Nice to have

• Fintech experience
• Strong finance background

Benefits

• Significant, meaningful equity
• Full health coverage
• Wellness stipend for gym and office
• Travel stipend for certain circumstances

Before you apply

• Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments or integration system you have built

About the company

wonderschool makes high-quality early childhood education accessible by giving childcare providers tools and support and helping parents find quality learning environments. It is a Series B company backed by a16z, Goldman Sachs and First Round.