Senior Payments Engineer

ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating cutting-edge technology that fuels Democratic victories and enables progressive causes to thrive. They are seeking a Senior Payments Engineer to join their Payments team, where the role involves architecting and enhancing payment systems while providing technical leadership and fostering an inclusive environment. The engineer will work on critical areas like payment processing, recurring contributions, and fraud mitigation.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, refactor, and enhance payments systems to ensure secure, scalable, and reliable feature delivery across the payment life cycle from initial authorization to payout
• Provide technical leadership and vision in developing, testing, monitoring, and rolling out the next generation of our payments system
• Guide the design and execution of high-impact technical solutions while balancing effort, scope, and trade-offs specific to payment processing challenges
• Recommend system-level improvements to address security, scalability, and reliability concerns in our payments infrastructure
• Act as a go-to consultant for guidance on payment-related system issues and complex transaction scenarios
• Lead the execution of large projects involving multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity
• Break down initiative-level work into multiple epics and contribute technical expertise to team roadmap prioritization
• Consistently debug the toughest issues throughout the stack, regardless of the environment, identifying root causes or viable workarounds
• Design frameworks to foster a culture of defensive testing within Engineering, particularly around payment processing workflows
• Collaboratively design and champion best practices and design patterns to improve platform maintainability
• Demonstrate technical leadership through writing documentation, establishing effective monitoring, and fostering clear communication
• Set the standard for software quality through maintainable code that adapts to future design and roadmap decisions
• Coach and mentor other engineers, creating spaces where individuals feel engaged, valued, and heard
• 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

Requirements:

• 3-5+ years or equivalent of professional experience working with teams and delivering projects
• Significant experience with server-side web application development, preferably with Ruby on Rails
• 3+ years or equivalent experience with developing payment systems (ie. Stripe, Paypal, Checkout, Sift)
• Experience leading the execution of large projects involving multiple engineers, complex requirements, and high ambiguity
• A track record of effective collaboration with other engineers to develop abstractions and patterns that make it easy to build reliable software
• 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 mentor, collaborate, and elevate your team by supporting your peers
• Excitement for the learning and growth of yourself and your teammates
• Proactiveness, communication skills, and the ability to learn quickly