Senior Software Engineer (Golang) - Remote - job 1 of 2

• Full-time

Company Description

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 in growth mode and looking to add a dynamic Senior Software Engineer to our PayNearMe team. This position will report to the Director of Engineering for the Services Team. 

As a Sr. Engineer on the Services Team, you will have significant responsibility, owning code that directly moves billions of dollars every month, and helping to shape the future of our software platform.

Job Description

• Producing high-performance, reliable, and secure service implementations in Go
• Supporting, maintaining, and improving existing services in production
• Participating in the design and development of new services and features
• Developing a deep understanding of our business domain and operational processes
• Appropriately managing risk and tradeoffs when introducing change to mission-critical application code

Qualifications

• 5 years of professional experience, with at least 3 using the Go programming language
• Strong knowledge of service design principles and supporting operational technologies such as gRPC and Kubernetes
• Ability to communicate clearly with a variety of stakeholders, both technical and nontechnical
• Comfortable working in a polyglot technical environment alongside Ruby engineers
• Capacity to make practical decisions with good judgment when working within existing codebases or faced with other design constraints
• Commitment to producing well-tested code that prioritizes security considerations
• Willingness to adhere to a rigorous change control process in a highly regulated industry
• Respect and support for team members of all levels and backgrounds, with openness to both teaching and learning

Preferred Experience:

• Payments, fintech applications, or other industry subject to significant regulation
• Domain expertise in the details of payment card and/or ACH processing
• Experience with the Ruby programming language
• Experience with NATS messaging
• Experience with relational databases, particularly Postgres

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

Salary Range: $175,000 - $200,000

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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