The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Payments team, you will own the software that moves real money for Order.co's customers - virtual-card issuance and authorization, bank connections, accounting integrations, recurring and consolidated invoicing, and ACH / RTP rails. You'll deliver complex features reliably, own subsystems end-to-end from initial design through rollout and post-release fixes, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers along the way. You'll be a credible technical voice in design discussions, challenge weak assumptions early, and help the team build software that is correct, maintainable, and secure - qualities that matter especially in code paths where a bug shows up on a customer's bank statement. Along the way, you'll grow your architectural judgment in money-movement systems and predictably ship work that moves the business forward.

Responsibilities

Technical Execution & Code Ownership

• Independently design and implement complex, multi-part features from requirements to production
• Own subsystems, services, or critical components in the payments stack - for example, the internal financial ledger, the virtual-cards issuance and authorization lifecycle, bank connections, or the invoicing and auto-debit pipeline. The team routes questions to you for these areas
• Write clean, maintainable, production-ready code with consistent test coverage - money-movement code paths are held to a high test bar
• Navigate existing codebases with architectural discernment - identify sound patterns to build upon, recognize technical debt, and use AI tooling as an accelerant while applying your own judgment on correctness, security, and alignment with the system's direction
• Debug production issues effectively; seek first to understand - investigate evidence and identify root causes rather than applying band-aids, especially in webhook, retry, and reconciliation paths where a quick patch can hide a deeper consistency bug

Design & Architecture Contribution

• Participate actively in design reviews; your designs regularly influence team-level architecture decisions
• Propose sound technical designs that account for scalability, performance, and reliability trade-offs - and for payments-specific concerns like idempotency, exactly-once semantics, reconciliation between internal state and vendor reports, and clean separation between authorization and capture
• Identify risks before they become incidents - surface edge cases, data consistency concerns, and failure modes during planning. In payments, that includes double-charge, double-credit, dropped webhook, and out-of-order event scenarios

End-to-End Delivery & Ownership

• Scope and estimate work accurately; solve problems in order - break down epics into deliverable, independently reviewable units
• Deliver features end-to-end, including rollout coordination and post-release monitoring. Rollouts that affect real money rely on feature-flagging, dark-launching, reconciling, and watching dashboards before declaring "done"
• Communicate risks and blockers early - don't absorb uncertainty silently
• Review stories critically before committing: ensure they're appropriately broken down and that dependencies are well understood by the team

Mentorship & Technical Leadership

• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers through code reviews, pairing, and direct feedback
• Provide high-quality, substantive code reviews - lead with humility, treat the author as a teammate to help, and catch what AI misses; teach others to do the same
• Teach best practices; your presence raises the quality of code around you

Technical Influence

• Influence technical decisions through credibility, not just seniority
• Drive improvements in team practices - testing patterns, observability for money-movement flows, code organization, and the bar for test coverage in code paths that move real funds
• Champion quality and standards; push back on shortcuts that create long-term cost - especially in code that touches funds or credit

Communication & Collaboration

• Explain technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Represent engineering well in product and cross-functional discussions, including with Finance, Operations, and Credit on reconciliation, credit-risk, and dispute-handling questions
• Translate vendor documentation (Stripe, Lithic, and others) into clear, scoped engineering work
• Approach all assignments with a security lens - actively look for vulnerabilities in your own code and in the code you review, with extra care in PII and PCI-adjacent paths

Qualifications

• You are motivated by accountability - you own outcomes, not just tasks
• You are results-oriented and measure success by shipped, working software
• You are motivated by correctness in code that touches money - the consequences of a bug land on real customer balances, and you take that seriously
• You love helping people on your team grow and improve
• Writing tests is an integral part of your development process, not an afterthought
• You know how to design and build software incrementally - you don't need a complete spec to make progress
• Collaborating with the people around you to achieve a goal motivates you
• You are collaborative, open-minded, and actively developing your craft
• You are curious and pragmatic about AI-driven solutions - you apply them where they add real value and stay skeptical where they don't
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools - you understand how they work, where they help, and where they fail. Prior hands-on use is a plus; intellectual curiosity and the instinct to evaluate AI output critically are what matter

Technical Skills

• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Expertise in building production-grade applications and services using Ruby and Ruby on Rails
• Extensive experience with PostgreSQL and SQL-based data modeling, including query optimization and performance tuning
• Deep understanding of web application security, observability, and scalable system architecture
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain secure, scalable, and well-documented APIs
• Experience building integrations with external systems - REST/GraphQL APIs, webhooks, event-driven pipelines, or third-party vendor connections
• Hands-on experience with at least one payment processor or card issuer (Stripe, Lithic, Adyen, Marqeta, Braintree, or equivalents), or comparable fintech vendor work
• Working familiarity with at least one of: double-entry ledger design, idempotency / exactly-once patterns for webhooks and money-movement, ACH / wire / card-network basics, or reconciliation against vendor reports
• Familiarity with AWS and other cloud platforms, including infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) as part of your development workflow - not as a shortcut, but as a force multiplier; you provide them with appropriate context about constraints and conventions, critique AI output, recognize failure modes, and decide when to override

What Great Looks Like

A Senior Software Engineer on the Payments team who is thriving at this level demonstrates:

• Reliable delivery of complex work - consistently ships multi-part features on time with low defect rates
• Low defects in owned areas - proactively monitors and improves the quality of the systems they own; in payments specifically, that means incident-free quarters in code paths that move funds and clean reconciliation against vendor reports
• High trust from team and stakeholders - engineers, Finance, Operations, and Credit partners know they can count on you
• Measurable mentorship impact - engineers around you write better code because of your reviews and guidance

"Someone we can depend on for the work that matters - especially the work that touches money."

Failure Modes We Screen Against

We actively evaluate candidates for the following anti-patterns during the interview process:

Failure Mode

What It Looks Like

Strong coder, weak owner

Ships code but doesn't manage to the task - owns the merge, not the outcome; hands off and moves on without monitoring or fixing post-release issues

Solo expert

Hoards knowledge instead of sharing - becomes a single point of failure and blocks team growth

Overconfident designer

Proposes solutions without considering trade-offs - jumps to conclusions, resists alternative approaches

Rubber-stamper

Produces AI-generated output without verifying it against the codebase, tests, or business context

Interview Process

Our 5-round process is designed to evaluate you across all competency areas. AI tools are permitted in technical rounds.

Round

Format

What We Evaluate

1 - Hiring Manager Screen

60 min, conversational

Career trajectory, mentorship philosophy, technical influence examples, communication style

2 - Take-Home + PR Discussion

72h take-home + 60 min live

Navigating unfamiliar code, ownership and decomposition discipline visible in your PR, root-cause judgment, AI tool usage

3 - System Design + Artifact Critique

60 min, Miro board

Requirements gathering, schema/API design, trade-off articulation, calibrated code-review judgment on a teammate's PR

4 - Team Interview (conditional)

30 min, behavioral

Collaboration patterns, mentorship behavior, negotiation behavior with cross-functional partners

5 - Culture Add

30 min, People Team

Organizational values alignment

Round 4 is conditional: it runs when the team needs additional behavioral signal after Rounds 2 and 3, and is otherwise skipped. Your recruiter will tell you whether it's scheduled before your loop is finalized.

The Round 2 (Take-Home + PR Discussion) and Round 3 (System Design) exercises are drawn from real payments problems - invoice payment allocation and credit-availability calculation - so the technical evaluation is grounded in the work you'd actually be doing.

What You'll Receive

• Competitive compensation including base salary, bonus, and equity
• Employer-sponsored 401(k) with match
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible time off and hybrid work environment
• Opportunity to build and scale a critical function at a high-growth fintech company

The anticipated annual salary range for this role is $175,000-$195,000. Actual compensation and title will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills.