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Senior Software Engineer, Growth (Payments)

Linktree · San Francisco, United States · On-site

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About the role

We are seeking a talented and experienced Software Engineer with a deep understanding of payment platforms and the ability to optimize them for efficiency, security, and performance. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in enhancing our payment systems to ensure seamless transactions, improve recurring payment performance, reduce latency, and maintain the highest level of security. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience)
  • Proven experience as a Software Engineer with a focus on payment platforms and optimization
  • Strong understanding of payment processing workflows, protocols, and security standards (e.g., PCI DSS)
  • Proficiency in programming languages commonly used for payment platforms (e.g., Python, Java, C++)
  • Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate software development, with the ability to effectively prompt, iterate, validate, and refine AI-generated code
  • Experience with payment gateway integrations and APIs
More about this role

We are seeking a talented and experienced Software Engineer with a deep understanding of payment platforms and the ability to optimize them for efficiency, security, and performance. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in enhancing our payment systems to ensure seamless transactions, improve recurring payment performance, reduce latency, and maintain the highest level of security. If you are passionate about payment technology and have a proven track record of optimizing payment platforms, we invite you to apply for this position.

  • Payment Platform Optimization: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze, design, and implement enhancements to our payment platforms.
  • Improve recurring payment performance and reliability across the subscription lifecycle.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations in all payment-related activities.
  • Performance Enhancement: Optimize payment processing pipelines to reduce latency and increase transaction speed, as well as throughput
  • Monitor system performance and proactively address issues that could impact payment processing.
  • Ensure graceful handling of payment service provider degradation, timeouts, and...

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