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Senior Software Engineer, Payments

Wonderschool · San Francisco · On-site

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About Wonderschool

Wonderschool is a leading provider of comprehensive childcare solutions. Wonderschool helps educators, families, and state leaders increase the health of the childcare landscape. Backed by a16z and 500 Global.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • 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
More about this role

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.

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.

  • 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...

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