About the Job
Overview
This position can be based out of San Francisco or New York.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Ledgers team. The Ledgers product is a database that enables companies to track high volume money movement following double-entry accounting principles. It powers the day-to-day operations of global marketplaces, cards, and peer-to-peer money transfer systems.
Our API is often our customers’ most critical piece of infrastructure. We place a premium on building robust, scalable systems that can sustain a high volume of API calls and exceed the reliability requirements to move money at scale. We complement this with well-thought-out interfaces for our users and pride in writing quality API docs.
In addition to our API, we build a web platform that is used by accountants, controllers, and engineers. They use it to perform bank reconciliation, generate reports, and monitor their business. As an engineer, you will work with our product team to build products and features for these users.
About the Company
Our client is the operating system for money movement. Their payment operations platform combines a suite of APIs and dashboards to help companies unlock new payments revenue, strengthen customer experiences, and drive efficiency through their business. Their end-to-end platform moves enterprises forward with faster payments, efficient workflows, full data visibility, and seamless bank integrations.
Week by Week
During your first week you will:
- Get to know our leadership, culture, and values
- Onboard with the engineering team
- Ship your first commit on day 1
- Take on 1-2 small tickets to address bugs or make minor improvements
- Read our favorite industry primers
During your first six weeks you will:
- Ship your first major project
- Write your first blog post. We love writing (and have been on the front page of Hacker News multiple times with posts like “Accounting for Developers” and "What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?")
- Talk with customers
During your first six months you will:
- Work with our product team to scope and ship products for both our engineering and finance users
- Grow our team by mentoring engineers, contributing to internal tools and docs, and interviewing candidates
What You Should Have
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience working with large-scale, high-availability systems
- Experience working with relational databases
Technologies We Use
- Ruby on Rails for our backend framework
- React, GraphQL, and Tailwind CSS on the frontend
- Postgres for our database
- Redis for caching
- AWS for infrastructure and hosting
- Docker for containerization
- GitHub for source code management
- Buildkite for continuous integration
Our client is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual's race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
Our client participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.