Wonderschool
Senior Software Engineer, Payments
Edtech.com's Summary
- Own and refactor a complex payments system integrating banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and billing platforms.
- Design for accuracy and compliance in money movement and financial services regulations.
- Collaborate closely with customers to address real-world payment failures and edge cases.
- Partner daily with product teams to build, ship, and iterate payment solutions.
- Senior engineer role requiring strong payments and fintech integration experience.
- Comfortable navigating the regulatory landscape surrounding payments, banking, and cards.
- Uses AI tools for problem-solving and works independently.
- Competitive base salary with significant equity ownership.
- Offers full health coverage, wellness and travel stipends.
- Position involves working closely with the CEO in a San Francisco office environment.
Senior Software Engineer, Payments Full Description
Senior Software Engineer, Payments
Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill)
Company Overview
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.
The Role
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.
What You'll Do
- 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 cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform
- Own the orchestration and tracking/reconciliation layer across our third-party fintech partners
- Design for correctness first, because money movement demands it
- Work directly with customers to understand real-world failure modes and edge cases
- Partner daily with product to build, ship, measure, and iterate
- Build within the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services
Who You Are
- 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
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: Competitive market rate
- Equity: Significant, meaningful ownership
- Full health coverage
- Wellness stipend (gym and office)
- Travel stipend for certain circumstances
Application
Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments or integration system you have built.
This is a full-commitment, full-ownership role, based in our San Francisco office. You will work very closely with the CEO, in office five to six days a week.
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