Tech Lead - Staff Engineer, Payments

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Wonderschool

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For every child, there's Wonderschool.

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💰 $25M Series B on 2022-01

Description

• Wonderschool is harnessing technology to support child care providers. • Seeking a Tech Lead or Staff Engineer for payment processing systems. • Play a crucial role in ensuring reliability, security, and interoperability in financial workflows. • Lead and manage large, complex projects and develop mission-critical features. • Design and build the Wonderschool Payments Platform with reliability and efficiency. • Architect asynchronous systems for large data volumes supporting accuracy and observability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. • 8+ years of professional software development experience with a focus in developing full stack applications and familiarity with a wide range of technologies and programming concepts. • Previous experience with our current technology stack is not required but helpful. • Prior experience and expertise in working with payment gateways, especially familiarity with Stripe or other similar payment processing platforms. • Proven experience with high-traffic web apps and APIs, with a focus on observability, performance monitoring, logging, and alerting. • Strong proficiency in NoSQL data engines like Firestore and SQL data engines like Postgres, with a focus on database design and optimization. • Overall understanding of serverless computing and Platform as a Service providers such as Firebase. • Extensive experience with cloud providers like Google Cloud Platform, including deploying and managing cloud infrastructure, especially Kubernetes clusters, API gateways, and service meshes. • Understanding of modern DevOps practices and experience building CI/CD pipelines. • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to tackle complex challenges. • Strong communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate across teams. • Detail-oriented mindset, with a focus on delivering high-quality, scalable, and maintainable code.

Benefits

• Health benefits offer up to 100% coverage for employee premiums and up to 80% for dependents. • Wifi, Employee Wellness, and co-working space reimbursements offered to all employees. • A flexible PTO plan, paid holidays, and mental wellness days. • Highly competitive parental leave policies, eligible to qualified individuals after 6-months of employment. • An autonomous workplace that prioritizes health and wellness to ensure our employees can produce their best work while achieving their personal and professional goals. • A fully remote, but highly collaborative work environment with a variety of team bonding opportunities.