Senior Software Engineer, Growth (Payments)

Linktree empowers people and brands to curate, grow, and monetize their digital presence through its link-in-bio platform. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to optimize payment platforms, improve recurring payment performance, enhance security and fraud prevention, develop payment integrations and APIs, and monitor payment system reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and implement enhancements to our payment platforms
• Improve recurring payment performance and reliability across the subscription lifecycle
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations in all payment-related activities
• Optimize payment processing pipelines to reduce latency and increase transaction speed, as well as throughput
• Monitor system performance and proactively address issues that could impact payment processing
• Ensure graceful handling of payment service provider degradation, timeouts, and other failure scenarios
• Implement and maintain robust security measures to protect sensitive payment data
• Stay updated on the latest security threats and best practices in payment security
• Collaborate with security teams to proactively detect and prevent fraud
• Work closely with third-party payment service providers to integrate their APIs into our systems
• Develop and maintain APIs for payment processing and reconciliation
• Ensure seamless integration with various payment methods and gateways
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems to track the health and performance of payment platforms
• Respond to incidents and troubleshoot issues related to payment processing
• Maintain thorough logs and documentation for auditing purposes

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Proven experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on payment platforms and optimization
• Strong understanding of payment processing workflows, protocols, and security standards (e.g., PCI DSS)
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used for payment platforms (e.g., Python, Java, C++)
• Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate software development, with the ability to effectively prompt, iterate, validate, and refine AI-generated code
• Experience with payment gateway integrations and APIs
• Knowledge of database systems and data modeling related to payments
• Familiarity with payment fraud prevention and risk management
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering high-quality work
• Self-motivated and able to work independently or in a collaborative environment
• Knowledge of mobile payment technologies
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements in the payments industry
• Experience working with cloud-based payment solutions