The Role
Lead software engineering efforts by owning the full lifecycle of features, improving workflows, and mentoring team members in a collaborative environment.
Summary Generated by Built In
About Us:
Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly's Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.
Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.
Product Offering:
Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:
Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.
Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.
Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.
Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.
Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.
About the Role:
The Senior Software Engineer role blends hands-on execution with technical leadership. You’ll work in a collaborative, pragmatic team of engineers who take ownership, improve continuously, and align closely with product and business goals.
This is a high-impact opportunity to lead by example—shipping quality code, driving architectural conversations, and helping your team deliver meaningful outcomes. You’ll work closely with engineering management, architects, and peers to shape how we scale our platform and our engineering culture.
Technologies we use: Ruby, Rails, Elixir, JavaScript, Vue.js, Phoenix, CockroachDB, Heroku, Postgres, Kafka, AWS
Responsibilities:
- Improve engineering workflows and the SDLC with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset
- Own the full lifecycle of features and systems—from design to deployment to ongoing support
- Lead the development of scalable APIs, services, and internal frameworks
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and other teams to align technical solutions with business goals
- Break down complex problems into clear, actionable work for yourself and others
- Act as a technical lead on high-priority projects or initiatives
- Proactively identify and solve operational and architectural challenges
- Support production systems with urgency and clarity during high-pressure incidents
- Lead root cause analysis and ensure systemic improvements are implemented
- Mentor other engineers, raise technical standards, and promote reusable patterns and shared context
- Stay current on tools, architectures, and best practices to support long-term platform health
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience building production systems using REST services, SOA, or microservices
- Demonstrated ownership of systems, features, or cross-functional initiatives
- 3+ years working in agile teams (Scrum, Kanban) with mature CI/CD pipelines
- 3+ years of experience building applications with Ruby on Rails
- Proven ability to build modern, responsive front-ends using technologies like JavaScript, Vue.js, or TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and SOLID principles
- Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases, ORM/DAO concepts, and modern cloud technologies (AWS preferred; Azure acceptable)
- Strong communication, collaboration, and influencing skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and application security principles.
Additional Skills We Value:
- Proficiency in Elixir is strongly preferred
- Experience working in the payments industry, FinTech, or with payment gateways/processors.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization of high-throughput systems.
- Certifications in cloud architecture, software development, or agile methodologies
We Offer Our US-Based Employees:
- Competitive salary + Equity
- Outstanding Medical and Dental benefits, including 100% employer-paid options
- Company-paid Life and Disability insurance
- Optional vision and supplemental insurance options, and various Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- Open Paid Time Off policy + 12 weeks of paid leave for new parents
- Matching 401(k) plan (5% up to $5,000 yearly)
- $1,000 annual professional development stipend
- Monthly home working/digital lifestyle stipend, new MacBook, and one-time accessory reimbursement
- Access to company-paid professional coaching service
- Visits to HQ in Durham, North Carolina for remote employees
We champion the ethical, creative use of AI—if you’re someone who pairs human judgment with modern AI tools to work smarter and drive bigger impact, you’ll thrive here.
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Spreedly is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. We actively work to drive out even unintentional discrimination in our hiring processes via practices like blindly graded work samples, structured interviews, and diversity awareness training.
Due to the sensitive nature of what Spreedly does - handling payment data - finalist candidates must complete a successful background and reference check.
At this time Spreedly is unable to provide sponsorship for employment, and we are not set up to support remote employees who reside in California or New York. In order to be considered for employment, applicants must be currently legally authorized to work in the job location country and not require future sponsorship in order to continue working in that country.
We appreciate your interest in our company. Because of the high volume of resume flow, we may only respond to those candidates that we think will be a potential fit.
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Top Skills
AWS
Cockroachdb
Elixir
Heroku
JavaScript
Kafka
Phoenix
Postgres
Ruby on Rails
Ruby
Vue
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The Company
What We Do
Build best-in-market payment systems by connecting to any payment service. Enable, optimize, and analyze online revenue with Spreedly’s flexible payments platform.
See how you can start today: https://www.spreedly.com
Connecting to multiple payment services, known as payment orchestration, is the new standard. Building and maintaining custom payment integrations is slow and expensive. Our PCI compliant solution lets you connect once and stay ahead of your payments strategy.
