Principal Engineer (Rails) - Remote

PayNearMe is the industry’s only platform that facilitates cash, debit, credit and ACH payments. With its great mobile experience, PayNearMe’s technology provides a simple way for businesses to collect payments through an intuitive, consistent experience for their customers. PayNearMe is the technology company that’s changing how payments are made.

We are a diverse and collaborative company that loves to delight its customers (merchants, consumers, etc.) with simple, useful and practical product/service offerings. We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley with our employees distributed all across the US. Help us reimagine payments!

We’re in growth mode and looking to add a dynamic Principal Engineer to our PayNearMe team. This position will report to the Engineering Manager.

As a Principal Engineer on the Numbers team, you will be the vanguard of a cross-functional team engaged in the whole process of developing new features, from collaborating with stakeholders to hone requirements all the way through partnering with QA to ensure your implementation is production-ready. You’ll be instrumental in shaping the future of our platform, writing resilient, scalable software that will support our growth for many years to come.

What you’ll own and be responsible for:

• Large/complex projects and initiatives
• Developing a deep understanding of the team’s domain and the context in which we operate
• Producing well-tested code that considers security, performance, and resilience
• Outlining possible implementation options to meet business needs and describing the tradeoffs between them to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Thoroughly investigating areas of uncertainty to scope work and identify risks
• Engaging cross-functionally to manage dependencies for the projects you own
• Investing in the growth of your teammates and engineers across the organization through mentorship and training
• Breaking large, complex projects into discrete pieces to be distributed amongst the team for development
• Writing project plans detailing technical design, risks, dependencies, and milestones
• Proactively adjusting implementation plans to ensure core project goals are achieved within operational constraints and communicating those changes to stakeholders

Requirements

• Ability to make practical decisions with good judgment when faced with design constraints
• Ability to communicate clearly to a variety of stakeholders, tailoring terminology and level of detail appropriately based on the audience
• Ability to effectively collaborate in a fully remote environment
• Strong command of Ruby and Rails (with an understanding of the boundaries between them): minimally, 5-8 years of experience
• Commitment to identifying and solving the right problem
• Respect and support for team members of all levels and backgrounds, with openness to both teaching and learning

Preferred Experience

• Payments, financial applications, or any industry subject to significant government regulation and auditing requirements where precision and correctness are of paramount importance
• Golang, Containers, Kubernetes, AWS infrastructure, DataDog, Gitlab CI
• Modularizing monolithic applications - Design patterns that support long-term sustainability
• Growing an API while maintaining compatibility for existing integrations
• Solving complex performance problems, especially in ActiveRecord

Location: Flexible/Remote

Travel: Twice a year to headquarters

Benefits

• Stimulating start-up culture committed to diversity and inclusion
• Remote working opportunity
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Team outings and events when permitted
• Company-paid health insurance including medical, dental, and vision
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Fast-paced and professional work culture
• Stock options package
• Flexible time off
• Great compensation package plus extensive benefits

Salary Range: $185,000 - $200,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in this together to do the right thing. We deliver real results we are proud of while remaining respectful, transparent, and flexible.

PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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Effective Date: January 1, 2020

Last Reviewed on: December 23, 2019

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