Podium is a suite of messaging tools for local businessUsing our platform, businesses of all sizes can connect with customers via text to do things like request payments, collect reviews, and sell products, in a modern, convenient wayOur work streamlining this process for local businesses has awarded us recognition on top industry lists, such as forbes’ next billion dollar startups, forbes’ cloud 100, the inc5000 (#13), and fast company’s world’s most innovative companiesFor more about our productPodium has a positive, diverse, and supportive culture and was recently named one of incMagazine’s best workplaces for 2021 (4 years in a row)We look for people who are curious, creative and work to be a little better every dayIn our work together we embody our values: be a founder, murder drama, and enjoy the ride.
We are looking for self-driven people who are creative problem solvers, that learn quickly, and can thrive in a fast paced environment with little guidanceAnd we care about your career growthWe try to assign projects that will help each team member develop into a more well-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the futureOur team is dedicated to supporting new team members; we’re a good mix of new and experienced engineers, creating the perfect environment for you to both mentor and be mentoredWe all enjoy helping each other grow through 1:1 mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews.
As a senior payments engineer, you will help drive the scalability and implementation of quality code patterns across our payments teamsAs this product grows, we need people who can maintain a vision of how we can keep our code’s health in top shape in measurable ways.
You will join one of our payments engineering teamsOur payments product is both improving existing and creating new ways for our customers to collect paymentsWe seamlessly combine conversational, text-based commerce with in-store hardware to make it as easy as possible for our merchants to get paidIn 2021, we will be 10x’ing our previous year’s revenue goalWith the break-neck growth speed, we need to make sure we prioritize the health of our codebase both to keep the app running well and ensuring that the code repositories are easy and pleasant to work in.
What you should have:
Equivalent of 4+ years experience in fintech (time isn’t everything and someone can reach a senior level faster than this, we just mean you definitely know your stuff and have experience to back it up)
Experience leading projects from a technical perspective
There is no room for ego hereBe comfortable with being wrongBe willing to collaborate with others to reach the best solution to a problem.
A passion around teaching/mentoring
Understanding of how to advocate for projects to non-technical people
What we hope you have:
Experience working with stripe apis
Production experience with a functional programming language (we work in elixir)
The ability to work across boundaries of different teams (with different goals) to drive initiatives and deliver results
Experience working with cross-functional teams (product, ux design, etc.).
Benefits
Transparent culture
Remote first work setting for engineering & product
Great opportunities for career growth
401k with a competitive matching contribution plan
Unlimited vacation (yes, we want you to have a work-life balance)
Great medical, dental, vision benefits
Yearly home office upgrade stipend
1+ gathering(s) a year bringing all of engineering together
Multiple internal hackathons a year
Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
Paid maternity and paternity leave
Swag
Podium is an equal opportunity employerPodium provides equal employment opportunities (eeo) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, marital status or veteran status.
