Company Description

PayNearMe develops technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. Our modern and reliable platform lowers the total cost of payments by increasing acceptance rates, driving self-service and simplifying exceptions. We future-proof our clients’ payments roadmap by including all payment types and channels through a single contract and integration. With PayNearMe, businesses can transform the outdated systems holding them back from achieving progress.

PayNearMe has over 200 employees, closed a $45M Series D round in June 2023, and is processing over $1B in payments monthly. We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley with our employees distributed all across the U.S. Help us solve our clients’ biggest payment problems.

We are in growth mode and looking to add a dynamic Senior Software Engineer (Rails) to our PayNearMe team. This position reports to the Director of Engineering of our ‘Numbers’ team.

As a senior engineer on the Numbers team, you will have significant responsibility, owning code that enables our business partners and consumers to move billions of dollars.

Job Description

• Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable, and robust code our primary Ruby on Rails system and GO services.
• Be the team's lead troubleshooter, researching issues across multiple services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Write well-tested code using RSpec, emphasizing security, performance, and resilience
• Make practical decisions with good judgment when faced with design constraints
• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback through Git pull requests
• Mentor and support team members, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment

Qualifications

• Strong command of Ruby and Rails (understanding the boundaries between them)
• A working knowledge of GO - used in professional experience
• Have a tenacious desire to get to the bottom of things
• Compassion for end users - knowing that even a small payment is very important to someone
• Ability and willingness to write detailed technical documentation for a wide variety of audiences
• Experience working in a large codebase and communicating about code
• Ability to make practical decisions with good judgment when faced with design constraints
• Commitment to writing well-tested code that considers security, performance, and resilience
• Respect and support for team members of all levels and backgrounds, with openness to both teaching and learning

Additional Information

Benefits

• Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)
• Fast- paced and professional work culture
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
• $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
• Volunteer Time Off
• 13 scheduled holidays
• 4-6x / year in-person team meet-ups

Salary Range: $160,000 - $175,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in this together to do the right thing. We deliver real results we are proud of while remaining respectful, transparent, and flexible.

PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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