Senior Software Engineer

Job title: Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

We’re seeking an experienced and owner-minded Software Engineer to join Perpay and contribute to our culture of technical excellence. You will lead large-scale projects across analytics, commerce, product, design, and operations, mentoring junior engineers and helping scale our platform to serve millions of users in a mission-driven, fast-paced environment.

What You'll Do

• Be a leader our team looks to as a model of execution, accountability, and technical expertise

• Lead the implementation of large scale features for our customers and our internal finance, operations, and risk teams

• Develop technical requirements alongside our Product team

• Solve problems that span multiple interconnected systems with distributed architectures and scaling systems

• Execute on the full lifecycle of new features with fellow engineers

• Continue to improve how we build, test, and deliver software

• What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience building web applications at scale in at least one modern language/framework (Python/Django, React/TypeScript, Rails, etc.)

• 2+ years of experience leading technical teams and large, complex projects

• Experience working on consumer-facing products with empathy for end users

• Excellent at unblocking yourself and those around you, and ability to design, analyze, and debug distributed systems and services

• Significant experience operating large-scale services with AWS, Docker, and/or Kubernetes

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain highly technical subject matter to a nontechnical audience

• Nice to Have

• Product-minded with experience building production web apps for real users

• Experience coaching and supporting junior engineers

• Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: base $160,000 - $200,000 per year, plus equity and a discretionary cash bonus

• Meaningful compensation and equity

• Premium medical benefits (fully paid base plan, and very reasonable premium for the buy-up option)

• 4% employer 401k match

• Unlimited PTO

• Remote weeks around major holidays + extra holiday on weekends like MDW and LDW

• High quality catered lunch by local chefs, 4 days/week

• Gym subsidy

• Paid cell phone + plan

• Student loan repayment program

• Relocation assistance

• Generous team member discounts