Develop, enhance, and maintain payments systems to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable feature delivery across the payment life cycle from initial authorization to payout
Contribute to the design, testing, monitoring, and rollout of our payments system
Collaborate with other engineers to implement technical solutions while balancing effort, scope, and trade-offs specific to payment processing challenges
Participate in identifying and addressing security, scalability, and reliability concerns in our payments infrastructure
Debug issues throughout the stack and identify root causes or viable workarounds
Contribute to creating and maintaining defensive testing practices within Engineering, particularly around payment processing workflows
Write maintainable code that follows established best practices and design patterns
Document your work effectively and support clear communication within the team
Engage with your manager as a thought partner on core work and personal development to increase your impact on the team and the organization
May support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards

2-4 years of relevant professional experience working with teams and delivering projects
Professional experience with server-side web application development, preferably with Ruby on Rails
Some experience working with or building ETL pipelines to ingest and transform data from one system to another
A track record of delivering features while collaborating with product and design to resolve ambiguity and prioritize the highest impact work
An aptitude for reasoning about and troubleshooting complex systems
Proficiency in relational databases, preferably Postgres
Understanding of performance, scalability, and security concerns, particularly as they relate to payment processing
Eagerness to explore and refactor legacy code
A team player mentality. You keep the end user in mind and enjoy hearing feedback from your teammates, yet know when and how to defend your own ideas in a respectful manner
Comfort collaborating with a distributed team of many remote colleagues
An inclusive, generous working style: You like to collaborate and support your peers
An eagerness to learn and grow your skills as an engineer
Proactiveness, communication skills, and the ability to learn quickly

Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short
and long-term disability
Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

Software Engineer II – Payments

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