GoodLeap

Senior Software Engineer (Payments), Frontend

GoodLeap$146K — $170K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of front-end development experience using TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS.
  • Experience with RESTful APIs and integration with third-party services like Stripe.
  • Strong background in designing scalable and resilient frontend architectures in production environments.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS and microservices architectures.
  • Excellent communication and collaborative skills, with a focus on quality code and user experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable frontend applications for payments across web platforms.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of features from design to deployment, working autonomously.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to enhance payment experiences.
  • Tackle complex frontend challenges related to performance and security within financial workflows.
  • Establish best practices for frontend architecture and code quality, including comprehensive testing.
  • Contribute to shared frontend systems to enhance team efficiency and product consistency.
  • Identify and implement opportunities to improve developer tooling and processes.
  • Stay updated on trends in the payments sector and bring innovative ideas to the team.

Benefits

  • Work on projects that promote sustainability and energy solutions.
  • Opportunity for professional growth in a supportive environment.
  • Collaborate with a dedicated and forward-thinking team committed to making a difference.
Full Job Description
Position Summary

We're looking for a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the payments team at GoodLeap. In this role, you'll help design, build, and scale customer-facing payment products, ensuring they are secure, reliable, and performant. You'll collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and fellow engineers to deliver seamless payments experiences that power every transaction. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is eager to take ownership of key initiatives within a growing company.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance frontend applications that power GoodLeap's payments experience across web platforms, ensuring secure and seamless customer interactions.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of features-from technical design through implementation, testing, and deployment-operating with a high degree of autonomy and accountability within a fast-moving team environment.
  • Partner closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to deliver intuitive, reliable, and delightful payment experiences, driving alignment while maintaining strong engineering standards.
  • Solve complex frontend challenges related to performance, scalability, resiliency, and security, particularly within payments and financial workflows.
  • Establish and uphold best practices in frontend architecture, code quality, testing, and observability, including writing comprehensive unit and integration tests.
  • Contribute to and evolve shared frontend systems (e.g., design systems, component libraries, micro-frontend architecture) to enable high team velocity and consistency across products.
  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve developer experience, tooling, and processes, enabling the team to move faster while maintaining high quality.
  • Stay current with emerging trends, technologies, and innovations in the payments space, and proactively bring new ideas and perspectives to the team to continuously improve our products and user experience.
  • Operate effectively in a fast-paced, highly empowered team, where engineers are trusted to make decisions, challenge assumptions, and drive outcomes with minimal overhead.


Qualifications

  • 5+ years of front-end software development experience using TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS, building scalable and maintainable user interfaces.
  • Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and third-party services (e.g., Stripe or other payment platforms), with an understanding of secure data handling in financial applications.
  • Strong ability to design and implement performant, scalable, and resilient frontend architectures in complex, production environments.
  • Experience working in cloud-based environments (e.g., AWS) and collaborating with backend systems built on microservices architectures.
  • Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, with a passion for clean code, continuous improvement, and delivering high-quality user experiences.


Bonus Points

  • Experience in FinTech or other highly regulated industries.
  • Previous work with real-time payment processing systems.


Why Join Us?

  • Work on impactful projects that enable sustainability and energy solutions.
  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Opportunity for professional growth in a collaborative, inclusive, and fast-paced environment.
  • Work with a passionate, forward-thinking team dedicated to making a difference.


$146,000 - $170,000 a year

In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions:

Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other managers related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and other skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job position or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.

If you are an extraordinary professional who thrives in a collaborative work culture and values a rewarding career, then we want to work with you! Apply today!

About GoodLeap

GoodLeap is a renewable energy company that provides homeowners with access to affordable solar energy. The company offers a range of financing options, including loans, leases, and power purchase agreements, to help homeowners make the switch to solar. GoodLeap also offers energy storage solutions and home improvement financing to help homeowners reduce their energy bills and increase the value of their homes. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
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