Senior Software Engineer, Payments

Senior Software Engineer, Payments

Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill)

Company Overview Mission: Make high-quality early childhood education accessible to all by empowering childcare providers with tools and support while helping parents find quality learning environments. What We're Building: A category-defining platform at the intersection of marketplace, SaaS, and public sector systems, increasingly powered by AI. Series B backed by a16z, Goldman Sachs, and First Round.

The Role Own the engineering behind a payments platform that processes at least $3 billion through our platform, working alongside a small, dedicated team. We move money across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll, we run our own billing platform, and we lean on third-party partners for most of our fintech capabilities, so much of this is integration, orchestration, and tracking work. There is a lot to build here. You will consolidate and refactor a system built across many legacy integrations into something clean, reliable, and fast, and you will spend a lot of time directly with customers.

What You'll Do

• Build alongside a dedicated payments team: consolidate and refactor a payments system assembled from many legacy system integrations

• Build and maintain integrations across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform

• Own the orchestration and tracking/reconciliation layer across our third-party fintech partners

• Design for correctness first, because money movement demands it

• Work directly with customers to understand real-world failure modes and edge cases

• Partner daily with product to build, ship, measure, and iterate

• Build within the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services

• Who You Are

• Senior engineer with a strong payments background and real experience building payment systems and integrations (fintech a plus)

• Exceptionally high attention to detail; strong finance background is a plus

• Excited to be close to the build and close to customers

• Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action

• Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking, and cards

• Uses AI tools and figures things out independently

• Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: Competitive market rate

• Equity: Significant, meaningful ownership

• Full health coverage

• Wellness stipend (gym and office)

• Travel stipend for certain circumstances