Senior Software Engineer, Payments & Monetization

Mighty Networks is a pioneering community platform that has delivered significant earnings to its customers. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on payments and monetization to build systems that drive transaction revenue across the platform, working on both backend and frontend development.

Responsibilities:

• Own full features across payments and monetization, from definition through deployment
• Build and improve systems for checkout, subscriptions, billing, and plan management
• Work across backend and frontend to deliver a seamless purchasing experience
• Integrate and evolve third-party payment providers so they feel native and reliable
• Prototype quickly and learn through iteration
• Debug and test your own code to ship safely and quickly
• Use AI tools to improve development speed and explore new approaches
• Collaborate with product and design to improve conversion and revenue
• Drive simplicity, clarity, and speed in all your builds
• Participate in incident response and help resolve production issues tied to payment systems

Requirements:

• Five or more years of full-stack development experience, ideally with Ruby on Rails
• Strong experience across backend systems and modern frontend frameworks such as React
• Experience building or working with payments, subscriptions, or billing systems
• Familiarity with third-party payment providers such as Stripe or similar platforms
• Experience designing and developing REST APIs
• Strong understanding of real-world payments flows, including checkout, subscriptions, retries, failures, and edge cases
• Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
• Experience with AI-assisted development workflows
• Clear communicator who works well across teams
• Bias toward action and shipping
• Curiosity and a strong desire to learn and improve
• Experience with international payments and currencies
• AWS, Docker, Kubernetes