Parker’s mission is simple but ambitious: to increase the number of financially independent people. We believe the best way to achieve this is by giving independent business owners the financial tools they need to scale profitably.
Our core product combines a virtual corporate card with dynamic spending limits and profitability-focused software tooling—empowering eCommerce merchants to grow faster while staying in control of their margins.
We’ve raised over $180M in equity and debt from world-class investors, including Valar Ventures, Y Combinator, SVB, and notable founders such as Solomon Hykes (Docker), Paul Buchheit (Gmail), Paul Graham (Y Combinator), and Robert Leshner (Compound). We’re a Series B fintech scaling rapidly, with strong product-market fit and accelerating demand.
Parker is hiring a Software Engineer - Backend to design and scale the foundational systems that keep our platform fast, reliable, and secure. You'll work on everything from architecting APIs and shaping data models to optimizing infrastructure for performance and growth. We’re looking for engineers with a strong systems mindset and 5+ years of experience building backend services from the ground up—someone who values thoughtful abstractions, understands how to move quickly without sacrificing reliability, and enjoys collaborating across product and infrastructure teams to deliver impact at scale.
Minimum of four years of experience with modern web technologies such as: Git, Node.js, GraphQL, React, Web API’s, Docker, Databases, Kubernetes, Microservices, etc.
Interest in building products meant to be used by real users. Meaning the ability to work closely with customers and intuitively make real product decisions
Proven abilities in developing your own scalable, products/applications from scratch
Strong ability to communicate in English
A passionate, determined, and curious thinker who thinks about problems from an engineering perspective
Someone who is interested in growing in a fast-paced environment
Strong communicator who can articulate your ideas clearly and participate in making difficult decisions
A self-starter who can approach general problems and find a direction to take them
A hacker with general interest in learning about new technologies and coming up with solutions to unsolved problems
Experience working within payments or at a fintech company/on a fintech project
Experience and subject matter expertise in the e-commerce industry
Interest/contributions to open source software
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience building backend services
- Minimum of four years experience with modern web technologies: Git, Node.js, GraphQL, React, Web APIs, Docker, Databases, Kubernetes, Microservices
- Proven ability to develop scalable products/applications from scratch
- Ability to work closely with customers and make product decisions
- Strong ability to communicate in English
- Self-starter, strong communicator, curious and able to operate in fast-paced environments
- Experience working within payments or fintech projects
- Experience and subject matter expertise in e-commerce industry
- Interest or contributions to open source software
Parker Hannifin Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Parker Hannifin and has not been reviewed or approved by Parker Hannifin.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is portrayed as a meaningful part of the package, with medical, dental, and vision options described as comprehensive. Disability, life insurance, FSAs, and mental health support further strengthen the perceived health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as a standout, with a 401(k) and company match frequently paired with additional retirement contributions. Stock-related programs such as an employee stock purchase plan are also included as part of the broader financial benefits.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses and profit-sharing are depicted as recurring parts of compensation, including references to quarterly bonuses and performance-related payouts. These incentives are often framed as an important offset when base pay is viewed as only moderate.
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What We Do
Parker Hannifin is the world's leading diversified manufacturer of motion. The company's products are vital to virtually everything that moves or requires control, including the manufacture and processing of raw materials, durable goods, infrastructure development and all forms of transport. Key technology areas are aerospace, climate control, electromechanical, filtration, fluid and gas handling, hydraulics, pneumatics, process control, sealing and shielding and human motion. Traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "PH," Parker is strategically diversified, value-driven and well positioned for global growth as the industry consolidator and supplier of choice. Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow.
