Remote Senior Engineer, Payments

Summary

Join Sure, a leading insurtech company, and become a Senior Engineer specializing in payment platforms. You will contribute to all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from architecture and design to implementation and maintenance. This role requires strong experience with Python, Django, and payment platforms, along with a deep understanding of security and scalability. You will collaborate with a distributed team, leveraging effective communication and autonomy to build and iterate rapidly. Sure offers a remote-first work environment, unlimited PTO, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive culture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years experience with Python and Django
• 2+ years experience on payment platforms and optimization
• 2+ years of working and integrating with payment processors or building gateways for payment processors to interface with card networks, banks, etc
• Great experience building apps in a secure and PCI-compliant environment
• Solid understanding of building streaming systems that produce large quantities of immutable, auditable data at scale that have complex aggregation
• Great experience participating in the design and architecture of a project
• Self-directed and self-motivated individuals comfortable working with diverse teams
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Experience with AWS or other cloud services

Responsibilities

• Contribute to all aspects of the software process: including architecture, specification reviews, implementation, automated testing, code reviews, debugging, and documentation
• Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
• Implement elegant, scalable web-facing solutions to solve complex business problems in the payments space
• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable APIs with the applications that rely on them
• Collaborate across different teams within the company to design solutions that fit multiple stakeholders needs
• Resolve bug fixes and troubleshoot incidents from our partners and customers including identification, resolution, and remediation
• Help build automation tools, define processes, and add documentation to improve our developer experience and enable the business capabilities for Payments and Billing

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with payment fraud prevention and risk management
• Experience with large data tools such as Databricks and PySpark
• Experience with payment forms beyond Credit Cards i.e. ACH, Check, and other payment forms
• Familiarity of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) in software development including concepts like Journal Entries, Corrections, etc

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO… no really, we want you to take it!
• Mental Health Breaks - company provided meditation app and a weekly wellness hour
• WFH stipend to help you work your best while being remote
• Countless Medical, Dental and Vision plans … we are an insurtech company after all!
• Equity and 401K
• Generous parental leave