Staff Software Engineer (L5 – Full Stack)
Remote, US
Staff Software Engineer (L5 – Full Stack)
We are seeking a skilled Staff Software Engineer with a passion for building high quality customer-facing software experiences to enhance and expand our digital payment platforms. The ideal candidate will have experience building, scaling, and maintaining full stack web applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a full-stack software engineering feature development team.
- Manage a prioritized backlog in collaboration with the product management team.
- Develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Django/Python.
- Design and implement data solutions using industry-standard relational and non-relational database systems.
- Participate in the development, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-based infrastructure.
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications through automated testing, monitoring, and observability.
- Collaborate on the design of new features and optimization of existing features.
- Write clean, maintainable, testable, and efficient code.
- Conduct code reviews and mentor other engineers.
- Stay informed of emerging technologies and propose adjustments to workflows and technologies.
- Contribute to development and troubleshooting of frontend UIs interacting with backend APIs.
- Participate in incident management on-call rotation.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of professional experience in full stack development.
- Experience with modern languages such as Python, Java, PHP, Go, etc.
- Experience with modern Javascript frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, etc.
- Experience structuring, managing, and storing complex data with various database types (SQL / NoSQL)
- Proven ability to build complex web systems and applications.
- Solid understanding of object-oriented programming, data structures, and algorithms.
- Experience working within distributed and event-driven systems, understanding scalability and reliability aspects.
Desired Expertise:
- Experience in a team lead or scrum master capacity.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Experience working with modern cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Proficiency in RESTful API design and implementation.
- Proficiency in automated testing best practices and modern tooling.
- Experience with cloud monitoring services such as DataDog, New Relic, or AppDynamics.
Who We Are:
PaymentWorks digital supplier onboarding is the foundation of vendor master data management – enabling organizations to control costs and risks while executing a payables strategy to optimize the time value of money.
Why Work Here:
- We have a proven market need
- We have hockey stick growth expectations
- Our product stops payments fraud (yes, we regularly stop bad guys!)
- We are small and nimble, and we move fast. New ideas, new problems to solve, and new customers happen every day.
- We respect that you have a life outside of work (i.e., we have options for flexible work schedules, and we have great benefits, including unlimited PTO)
- Every employee has an impact – no one here is a cog in a machine
- Applicants must pass a background check before being officially accepted for employment.
Applicants must pass a background check prior to being officially accepted for employment.
Job is remote; however, applicants must reside in one of the following states:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
At PaymentWorks, we base our employment decisions entirely on business needs, job requirements, and qualifications. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, health, parental status, personal beliefs, veteran status, age, or any other status. We have zero tolerance for any kind of discrimination, and we are looking for candidates who share those values. Applications from women and members of underrepresented minority groups are welcomed.
About PaymentWorks
PaymentWorks digital supplier onboarding is the foundation of vendor master data management – enabling organizations to control costs and risks while executing a payables strategy to optimize the time value of money.
To apply for this position, send an e-mail to: careers@paymentworks.com
