Benepass
Staff Software Engineer (Fintech)
U.S Remote · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$240kDetected 69 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactDjangoDistributed SystemsPostgreSQLAWSDockerRESTDesign SystemsAccountingHRIS
About the role
- We believe people are the most important asset to any company.
- To date, the company has raised approximately $75 million in equity capital.
- These systems are responsible for tracking and moving real funds, enforcing complex rules, and maintaining a precise and auditable source of truth.
Responsibilities
- Staff Software Engineer to own and evolve the systems at the core of our platform:
- Money movement, including support for multi-currency and global transactions
- You don't just build APIs - you design systems that model real-world financial behavior.
- We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees and are seeking to build a team that reflects the diversity of the people we hope to serve with our revolutionary products.
Requirements
- Familiarity with real-world transaction lifecycles across the stack (network → processor → ledger)
- Experience working on systems that handle real money at scale (thousands of transactions per day or more)
- Experience designing or working on a ledger system, including:
- Experience with global money movement, including:
- Strong understanding of:
Nice to have
- Data consistency and correctness
- Idempotency and safe retries
- Failure modes in distributed systems
- Experience integrating with external financial APIs, including handling partial failures, timeouts, and eventual consistency
- Proficiency in Python and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Cross-border transactions (nice to have but strongly preferred)
Compensation
- $250 WFH setup (one time)
- $150/month cell phone + internet
- We offer several team onsites a year
Benefits
- 95% coverage of medical, dental, and vision
- Fantastic benefits (of course 😃), including:
- $500/year Learning & Development Benefit
- $100/month Wellness
- $100/month Co-working and Commuter Benefit
Company info
- At Benepass we're making benefits easy. We believe people are the most important asset to any company. Traditional one-size-fits-all benefits packages no longer cut it in today's hybrid and remote-first environment. With Benepass, companies can tailor their benefits to the unique needs of their workforce.
- Through our easy-to-use and highly customizable fintech platform, People teams can implement, administer, and track the benefits that meet employees where they are. Employers design their benefits and perks plan by setting a contribution amount and eligible spend categories. Every employee has their own individual definition of wellness and needs different things to help them be their most productive, fulfilled self.
- Helping companies reimagine how companies take care of their people.
- Founder Story
- Jaclyn Chen https://bit.ly/3FpQ0ti
- Benepass Raises $40M Series B https://getbenepass.com/blog/benepass-raises-40m-series-b-to-help-employers-redesign-benefits-for-rising-healthcare-costs
- Benepass | Candidate Resource Page https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_OTFvktl-2SoxPn_tkZzyHECSKM0V14hVZOy1ZdZ8zE/edit?usp=sharing
- Benepass Listed on Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces of 2023 https://bit.ly/3EAXv0Q
- At Benepass we're making benefits easy.
- Traditional one-size-fits-all benefits packages no longer cut it in today's hybrid and remote-first environment.
- With Benepass, companies can tailor their benefits to the unique needs of their workforce.
- Through our easy-to-use and highly customizable fintech platform, People teams can implement, administer, and track the benefits that meet employees where they are.
- Employers design their benefits and perks plan by setting a contribution amount and eligible spend categories.
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