Senior Software Engineer, Payments

SeatGeek is a technology innovator on a mission to disrupt the ticketing industry. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with prior payments experience to join their enterprise payments team, focusing on building innovative solutions for payment infrastructure. The role involves running a modern service-oriented architecture, solving complex performance problems, and collaborating across teams to enhance product offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Run a modern, containerized service-oriented architecture using industry-leading software development practices
• Ship code to production many times a day
• Solve complex performance problems, empower a data-driven business and scale our software to support our booming business
• Build performant, beautiful, inclusive user interfaces that delight our users and enhance our brand
• Evaluate new technologies and improve our software stack to keep our technological edge
• Leverage cutting-edge AI tools to bring ideas to life faster than ever while upholding SeatGeek’s technical and product standards; no token limits
• Work across teams and discipline boundaries to develop the best product in our industry
• Own large areas of the payments stack, from design through operation, including reliability, cost, and performance outcomes
• Iterate and develop against our native payment processing solution, including growing usage across our US and EMEA client base
• Collaborate closely with Finance, Risk, and Product to define and deliver payment strategies

Requirements:

• Experience building business critical software in a fast-paced environment
• Experience solving complex technical challenges
• Passion for software craftsmanship and product
• A product mindset
• Commitment to your teammates
• Experience owning end-to-end payment systems and integrations with external processors (e.g., Stripe, Adyen), including designing resilient, idempotent workflows and handling real-world failure modes
• Experience operating payment systems in production, including monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization (e.g., authorization rates, cost efficiency)
• Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Finance, and Risk to deliver payment solutions aligned with business goals
• Experience leading projects or mentoring engineers, with interest in growing into a broader technical or people leadership role
• Experience ensuring financial correctness through reconciliation, auditability, and robust data modeling