Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Settle as a Software Engineer on the Roots team and contribute to the development and management of our core Catalogue system. You will build scalable integrations, architect data models, optimize existing systems, and collaborate with product and design teams. This role requires strong back-end engineering skills with some front-end exposure, a product-focused mindset, and experience in building scalable systems and microservices. The ideal candidate is forward-thinking, iterative, and customer-centric. Settle offers a competitive salary, equity, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience, preferably in the B2B fintech and/or startup sector
• A strong understanding of scaling infrastructure, designing technical architecture, and building APIs
• Proficiency in CS fundamentals, a willingness to learn Ruby on Rails (our primary backend language), and mastery of OOP principles
• Experience designing scalable systems that not only meet growing customer demand but also support internal applications and seamless third-party integrations
• Experience building microservices with a thoughtful and strategic approach, ensuring scalability, maintainability and resilience
• Web-app architecture design. You have curiosity or understanding of how everything fits together from web services up through display and love designing reliable and extensible systems
• Adaptability. We’re a startup and project needs can change quickly. You love to jump into a new problem, learn what’s needed, and solve it
• Customer-centric mentality. You care about the user, strive to understand their needs and build tools to solve their problems
• Leadership. With rapid growth, we need and expect everyone to be a leader. You have the humility and self-awareness to understand and navigate the unknown while holding yourself and others to a high bar. Additionally, you enjoy mentoring and fostering the development of fellow engineers

Responsibilities

• Build scalable and reliable third-party integrations by developing APIs and systems that connect smoothly and securely
• Architect extensible data models, services and APIs to power customer-facing features and ensure a seamless user experience
• Optimize existing systems and infrastructure to support growing users, features, partners, and engineers
• Ensure seamless communication and effective collaboration with Product and Design teams in developing customer/user-facing functionality for our app
• Mentor and support the development of team members, fostering a culture of learning and growth within the engineering team
• Collaborate with fellow engineers to build reliable testing, integration, and deployment frameworks
• Independently drive projects to completion while effectively communicating progress and challenges to technical and non-technical colleagues

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with an ORM framework, such as Django or Hibernate

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Flexible and remote work culture
• Generous salary and equity for all staff
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Lunch & commute reimbursement when working in the NYC office located near Union Square
• $500 home office set up reimbursement
• $2500 annual growth and development stipend
• $50 monthly food delivery gift card
• 401k
• Brex company card
• HSA/FSA
• WeWork membership
• ERG groups e.g. LGBTQIA+, Women @ Settle, and more!
• Employee Referral Program
• Team building events