Senior Software Engineer, Finix Payments
$170-210k
+ Equity. Salary applicable to candidates based in SF
Payments technology for software businesses
Open for applications
Payments technology for software businesses
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$170-210k
+ Equity. Salary applicable to candidates based in SF
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the most accessible financial services ecosystem in history.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced in designing, implementing, and testing superior software
- Comfortable continuously delivering code, infrastructure, tests and features to production
- Excited about finding new and better ways to make software reliable, scale and perform
- Obsessed with finding edge cases, understanding requirements and design implications
- Proactive in monitoring running systems and troubleshooting production issues
- Always looking for ways to grow, opportunities to mentor and collaborate with peers
- Have 6+ years of experience building and designing systems with several lifecycles
- Extensive experience implementing secure APIs, highly available and observable services
- Led and mentored more junior software engineers
- Kept tight control on multiple competing priorities and have strong ability to multitask
- Raised the bar on every project you were involved in
What the job involves
- The engineering team owns the delivery and stability of our product end to end. Since Finix serves as the complete payment platform of our customers’, our engineering team owns our customers’ ability to capture revenue.
- The Sr. Software Engineer role centers around envisioning superior technical solutions to our customers’ payment needs, leading its implementation and continuously ensuring reliable service to our customers.
- You will have broad autonomy and responsibility for formulating the best solution possible and working with your peers to deliver your vision.
- Finix is looking for a team member to join our engineering team who brings exceptional technical acumen, attention to detail, interest to grow and an obsession with building excellent, performing and scalable software
- Deep dive into our customers’ needs, and work with product management to define new services
- Own the technical vision, implementation, best practices and infrastructure within your domain
- Develop close relationships with product management and peer engineers
- Become an expert in your payments domain and mentor junior software engineers
- Proactively improve our architecture, frameworks, tooling, automation, and best practices
Our take
Finix is in the very lucrative market of payments. Just as Stripe and Plaid have reached gargantuan valuations from augmenting online businesses’ ability to handle payments and taking a fee as a result, Finix is doing the same for software businesses.
Traditionally software businesses could only become a payments facilitator if they invested in a three-year in-house build by dozens of engineers, with tens of millions of dollars of technical R&D and investment. Instead, Finix takes that down to a number of months by getting developer-friendly APIs.
Now, the company is looking to compete directly with Stripe. That means becoming a payments facilitator themselves, and allowing its clients to set up payments handling through the Finix platform (and all the back office requirements and compliance certifications).
It's no easy task going up against the payments giant. However, Finix’s leadership will hope that its developer-friendly, open-infrastructure approach will see it win a fair amount of market share as it aggressively seeks growth in the coming years, aided by more than $125 million in funding to date.
Steph
Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2022
$30m
LATE VC
Feb 2021
$3m
SERIES B
Total funding: $125.5m
Company benefits
- Generous Time Off | We offer paid time off and wellness days for you to recharge and take care of yourself
- Flexible Health Plans | We offer a range of medical, dental, and vision coverage plans—as well as life insurance—to meet your needs
- 100% Benefits Coverage | In most cases, Finix will cover 100% of the health plans you choose for you and your dependents
- Inclusive Parental Leave | We offer paid time off for all new parents to bond with their children and take care of their partners
Company values
- Customer First | Our customers trust us with their businesses and their livelihoods. We don’t rest so that our customers can
- Open, Honest, & Direct | We don’t stand for corporate politics. We say what we mean and mean what we say, but we always do it in a respectful manner
- Act Like An Owner | ...because you are one! Hold yourself and others accountable. And absolutely never say “that’s not my job.”
- Passion For Your Craft | We’re geeks and we own it. We sweat the small stuff and build with purpose
- Eagerness to Evolve | At Finix, feedback is a gift. What got us here isn’t what will get us to the next stage. We push each other to be better each and every day
- Proactive Empathy | We put ourselves in someone else's shoes, and believe that empathy is the foundation of great company
- Integrity is Non-Negotiable | It takes years to build a reputation, but just minutes to ruin it. We live by a strong moral code and share a common sense of decency
- Always Hungry & Hustling | We live with a sense of urgency and abhor complacency. Where others see walls we see opportunity. We work hard but enjoy the ride!
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Richie Serna
(CEO)Previously an engineer at payment API startup, Balanced. Worked as a Conusltant for Booz and as an Analyst for JP Morgan. Graduated from Harvard University.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 6 more jobs at Finix Payments