Senior Software Engineer, Payments

About Super.com

We started Super.com to help maximize lives–both the lives of our customers and the lives of our employees– so that everyone can experience all that life has to offer. For our employees, our promise is that Super.com is more than just a job; it’s an opportunity to unlock one’s potential, where learning is celebrated and impact is realized.

We are more than a fast-paced, high-growth tech company; we care about our people and take career progression seriously. This is your career and our aim is to supercharge it through the people, the work, and the programs that fuel who we are.

About this team

Super.com engineering has three full-stack product development focus areas: travel, fintech, and a superapp that unifies travel and fintech along with several other savings and earnings use cases. Our dozens of microservices and event-driven architecture handle thousands of requests and events per second, ingest over 1TB of data per day and process over $1MM per day in sales, while maintaining a 99.9+% uptime. We have 80 engineers across our teams and our biggest selling point is our focus on supporting our engineers’ career growth, whether that’s as a technical contributor or people leader. As an engineer in our product development org you will work closely with Product Managers, Designers, and QA, and work in an agile, fast-paced environment (that respects work/life balance).

About this role

As a Senior Software Engineer, Payments you will be one of the most senior technical contributors on your team. You will tackle the most difficult technical challenges the team faces spanning both frontend and backend development work. This will include building out a payment processing service for SuperTravel, Super Pay, or Super+ (and any other verticals we might be working on!). We use a modern stack featuring React, TypeScript, and Python, and this role will predominantly work with Python and React, and this role will predominantly work with React and React Native. We use Material-UI and maintain our own component library, using Figma for mock-ups. Other technologies you’ll work with include Gitlab, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake. You will report to an Engineering Manager. As a Senior Engineer you have the choice to continue on the IC track into the Staff Software Engineer role or switch to the people management track into an Engineering Manager role.

Key Challenges

• Build out and fully own our payment processing infrastructure, integrating with various third-parties
• Ship projects end-to-end in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Have the opportunity to very meaningfully propel the business forward, and experience the impact of your work on the company’s business metrics and user experience
• Own features, services, caches, and databases, including deployment, monitoring, debugging, and testing
• Uphold standards for quality by performing code reviews and contributing to cross-team discussions on best practices
• Mentor junior developers
• Participate in cross-functional team projects, work with external stakeholders, and help shape the technical roadmap for future team projects
• Be data-driven and close to the customer, conducting experiments for nearly everything you launch

About You

• We’re looking for highly-motivated self-starters who share our excitement for growth and impact
• Willing and able to work across the stack and defend design choices for critical payments infrastructure
• Interested in building products in a scaleup environment: moving quickly, being data-driven, wearing multiple hats, continuously learning
• Strong communicator, and able to thrive on an agile team, contributing to: sprint ceremonies, quarterly project planning, engineering guilds, and working with various internal and external stakeholders
• Highly motivated, have a strong sense of ownership, and able to drive complex projects end-to-end working on systems that must maintain high levels of availability, uptime, and reliability.
• 5+ years of professional working experience in software development, including 3+ years working on payment processing or payments infrastructure
• 2+ years of professional experience working with web services including a modern frontend JS framework (ex. React, Vue, Angular) and comfortable tackling system design challenges
• Worked closely with business stakeholders on building brand new tooling/infrastructure

Bonus Points

• Have mentored more junior developers
• Working experience across a breadth of our infrastructure, languages and stacks (Python, Node, Gitlab, AWS, Docker, Postgres, Redis, Datadog, Amplitude, and Snowflake)
• SQL / analytics know-how, and experience with devops concepts
• Experience in a startup or scaleup environment

We've got you covered!

• Competitive salary packages, equity options, great benefits from day one, wellness budgets, as well as personal and team-level development budgets
• We are remote first – you have the flexibility to work from around the world and the hours that make sense for you– so that you can do your best work while living life on your own terms 
• Other perks include: unlimited PTO, recharge days, travel discounts on SuperTravel, Weekly UberEats credit
• We welcome new family additions with generous parental leave and a flexible return-to-work plan
• This is just scratching the surface – check out our careers site for a more detailed overview of our perks & benefits

We Believe in Equal Opportunity 

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. 

Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process. If needed, please notify our Talent Acquisition Partner.