Senior Software Engineer

inKind is building the financial infrastructure that connects restaurants, diners, and capital in entirely new ways. The Senior Software Engineer will design and build systems that support mission-critical financial workflows, leveraging AI tools and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable distributed systems supporting financial transactions and real-time events
• Architect services that handle real-world scale, failure scenarios, and performance constraints
• Ensure strong data integrity and consistency across distributed workflows
• Build secure infrastructure protecting sensitive financial data
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows
• Contribute to AI-enabled product features and automation across the platform
• Help evolve how our team integrates modern developer tools and AI-assisted engineering practices
• Design systems with observability, monitoring, and failure recovery in mind
• Debug complex production issues across distributed services
• Improve reliability and performance of mission-critical systems
• Participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform stability
• Partner with product and business teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions
• Lead architectural decisions through hands-on implementation
• Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards across the team

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems
• Strong distributed systems design experience
• Expertise in at least one major web framework (Rails, Django, Express, Fastify, etc.)
• Strong database knowledge including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity
• Experience designing highly available production systems
• Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design
• Experience scaling systems during periods of rapid growth
• Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems
• Experience implementing distributed patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and event-driven workflows
• Experience working with or evolving large Rails applications
• Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows or building AI-powered product features