Benepass

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.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • How issuers, sponsor banks, and processor integrations work in practice

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