Software Engineer II, Payments

Summary

Join ActBlue's Payments team as a Software Engineer II and play a key role in enhancing the user experience of our online fundraising platform. You will collaborate with engineers, product, and design teams to develop innovative payment solutions, ensuring a seamless experience for donors and fundraising entities. This remote position requires experience in developing payment systems, working with payment processors (especially Stripe), and utilizing technologies like Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL. You will design performant systems, write high-quality code, and contribute to technical discussions. ActBlue offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive, inclusive team environment.

Requirements

• 3+ years or equivalent of professional experience working as a team member and delivering projects
• Experience developing payment systems
• Experience working with payment processors, particularly Stripe
• Experience working with payment services APIs such as Google Pay or Apple Pay
• A track record of delivering timely, high-quality features while collaborating with product and design to resolve ambiguity and prioritize high-impact work
• A demonstrated ability to write extensible, maintainable, and scalable code
• Expertise and creativity when it comes to delivering value fast, with a focus on MVPs, frequent deployments, scope negotiations, and demos
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability. You care about helping your team deliver their roadmap and achieve the strategic outcomes of the work
• An inclusive and empathetic working style, particularly in a remote and distributed work environment
• Eagerness to learn and grow your skills as an engineer for all parts of the stack
• A passion for software and ActBlue’s mission to build people-powered movements

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with software engineers, product teams, and design teams to develop new user-facing payment features for donors and fundraising entities of all sizes
• Design products and systems with performance in mind so all users have a great experience on our platform
• Work across the stack, using Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL daily
• Improve platform performance and maintainability through quality code, testing, monitoring, and documentation
• Ensure product and feature quality through thorough PR reviews and QA testing
• Engage with and contribute to technical discussions around new solutions and architecture
• Grow as an individual and increase your impact on the success of your team and the progressive movement with the support of your manager
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture aligned with our values

Preferred Qualifications

• You have development experience with Ruby on Rails and React
• You are proficient with Postgres
• You have AWS Certifications
• You have experience working with webhooks

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times