Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill)
Company OverviewMission: Make high-quality early childhood education accessible to all by empowering childcare providers with tools and support while helping parents find quality learning environments.
What We're Building: A category-defining platform at the intersection of marketplace, SaaS, and public sector systems, increasingly powered by AI. Series B backed by a16z, Goldman Sachs, and First Round.
The RoleOwn the engineering behind a payments platform that processes at least $3 billion through our platform, working alongside a small, dedicated team. We move money across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll, we run our own billing platform, and we lean on third-party partners for most of our fintech capabilities, so much of this is integration, orchestration, and tracking work. There is a lot to build here. You will consolidate and refactor a system built across many legacy integrations into something clean, reliable, and fast, and you will spend a lot of time directly with customers.
What You'll Do- Build alongside a dedicated payments team: consolidate and refactor a payments system assembled from many legacy system integrations
- Build and maintain integrations across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform
- Own the orchestration and tracking/reconciliation layer across our third-party fintech partners
- Design for correctness first, because money movement demands it
- Work directly with customers to understand real-world failure modes and edge cases
- Partner daily with product to build, ship, measure, and iterate
- Build within the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services
- Senior engineer with a strong payments background and real experience building payment systems and integrations (fintech a plus)
- Exceptionally high attention to detail; strong finance background is a plus
- Excited to be close to the build and close to customers
- Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action
- Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking, and cards
- Uses AI tools and figures things out independently
- Base salary: Competitive market rate
- Equity: Significant, meaningful ownership
- Full health coverage
- Wellness stipend (gym and office)
- Travel stipend for certain circumstances
Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments or integration system you have built.
This is a full-commitment, full-ownership role, based in our San Francisco office. You will work very closely with the CEO, in office five to six days a week.
Skills Required
- Experience building payment systems and integrations (banking, debit cards, Stripe, payroll, partner advances)
- Strong knowledge of payments regulations and financial services compliance
- Experience consolidating and refactoring legacy payment integrations and building orchestration/reconciliation layers
- Experience working directly with customers to investigate real-world failure modes and edge cases
- Exceptionally high attention to detail
- Availability to work in-office in San Francisco five to six days per week
- Strong finance background
- Experience using AI tools and independent problem-solving
Wonderschool Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Employer-paid medical premiums for employees and substantial dependent coverage are highlighted across postings, indicating robust healthcare value. This materially elevates total compensation, especially for those covering families.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The time-off program includes flexible PTO, paid holidays, a winter company shutdown, and recurring mental health days. This provides predictable rest periods in addition to flexible leave.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Remote-friendly stipends like home-office setup and monthly Wi‑Fi, plus a monthly wellness/gym reimbursement, are consistently called out in postings. Such perks support day-to-day work and personal wellbeing.
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What We Do
At Wonderschool (www.wonderschool.com) our mission is to ensure every child has access to early education that helps them realize their potential. There is a major shortage of childcare and preschools in the United States and we believe one of the best ways to increase access for families is to help teachers start great child cares and preschools out of their homes. We provide assistance with licensing, setting up a classroom, setting pricing, building a website, matching parents to their program, operating a school day to day, and everything in between. Our goal is to build product to let teachers focus on what they do best – caring for and educating children
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