Senior Performance Engineer - Remote

PayNearMe develops award-winning technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to manage and accept payments. The company enables more ways to pay by offering all major payment types and channels in a single platform. PayNearMe is the technology company that’s changing how payments are made.

We are a diverse and collaborative company that loves to delight its customers (merchants, consumers, etc.) with simple, useful and practical product/service offerings. 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 US. Help us reimagine payments!

We’re looking for a very skilled Ruby on Rails engineer to join a small but dynamic performance team, reporting to the CTO, in the role of Senior Performance Engineer. This position blends the analytical skills of a data analyst, the instincts of a high-performance coder, the imagination to come up with highly-performant designs, the drive to push your projects to completion, and the ability to work effectively with other teams. We love people who used to be the "go-to" person at their previous companies, but are now wanting to be part of a talented team. Our goal is to make our platform fully horizontally scalable.

• Helping us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalability
• Write and extend test-harness scripts in Javascript to load-test specific components in our platform
• Use the load-tests to analyze current performance characteristics
• Remove load from the primary database through caching, reader nodes, query optimizations and improved algorithms
• Roll out changes in a controlled and reversible way
• Help us re-architect existing components for horizontal scalability
• Work with cloud-native infrastructure (we use AWS)
• Working independently, but closely with a few others
• If you have great leadership skills, this position could lead to a management position

• Superb Ruby on Rails skills, with a minimum of 10 years of current Ruby on Rails experience
• Skilled at coding in Javascript, used in our performance test harness
• Experience and expertise building highly performant and high-throughput Ruby/Rails back-ends
• Experience with Go is a plus, but not required
• Familiarity with query optimization with an intuitive understanding of database characteristics
• Experience with database sharing is a plus
• Experience writing well instrumented code that can be easily monitored (we use Datadog)
• Understand the impacts of locking, network latency, batching, caching and I/O on software performance
• A proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situations 
• Ability to facilitate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls in a distributed team environment
• Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
• Experience serving as a Tech-Lead

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
• 2x / year in-person team meet-ups (2-3 days, company paid)

Salary Range: $185,000 - $215,000

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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