Breeze
Staff Frontend Software Engineer - Payments and Checkout
New York City · Staff+
No sponsorshipDetected 99 days ago
ReactNext.jsA/B TestingCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Are you passionate about solving complex challenges in the fintech space?
- If you're passionate about creating innovative solutions in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, we want to talk to you.
- Staff Frontend Engineer (Payments & Checkout) Are you passionate about solving complex challenges in the fintech space?
Responsibilities
- Checkout ownership - Own the end-to-end frontend architecture for our checkout and payment flows across web platforms
- Experimentation - Partner with product and growth to run A/B tests, analyze funnel performance, and ship iterative improvements quickly
- Payment UX - Build seamless flows for complex payment states including retries, failures, and authentication (3DS, etc.)
- Performance - Optimize frontend performance (Core Web Vitals, latency, rendering) to ensure fast and reliable checkout experiences
- Integration - Collaborate with backend and payments teams to integrate APIs, PSPs, and orchestration layers
- Resilience - Build robust UI systems that gracefully handle edge cases and ensure high reliability during transactions
- Frontend standards - Define and drive best practices for frontend architecture, scalability, and maintainability
- Deep hands-on experience building and optimizing checkout or payment flows (must-have)
- We're building the universal payment layer to unify all currencies-fiat and crypto-so businesses and consumers can transact seamlessly.
- In this role, you'll own and evolve our checkout and payment experience - the most critical surface of our product.
Requirements
- 7+ years of frontend engineering experience, ideally in fast-paced or startup environments
- Strong proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js, etc.)
- Experience improving conversion rates through experimentation, analytics, and UX iteration
- Strong understanding of frontend performance optimization and rendering strategies
- Familiarity with payments infrastructure (Stripe, Adyen, Braintree, tokenization, 3DS, etc.)
- Strong product intuition and ability to translate data into user experience improvements
- 7+ years of experience in frontend engineering, with a focus on high-impact user-facing systems
- Experience with experimentation, analytics, and conversion-focused development
- Strong understanding of building reliable, scalable UI systems
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
Compensation
- Annual team retreat trip
Benefits
- annual medical allowance, productivity budget, gym membership & wellness subsidy
- Competitive salary + equity plan
Company info
- Fast-paced and dynamic - We're a growing startup that moves quickly
- Tech-driven - We leverage technology to address our users' biggest challenges
- Ownership and communication - We value people who take full ownership and communicate well across teams
- Continuous learning - You'll work alongside industry experts and deepen your expertise in payments and high-performance frontend systems
- What We're Looking For:
- We're looking for talented individuals to join our dynamic startup, backed by Sequoia Capital.
- We're looking for a Staff Frontend Engineer (Payments & Checkout) to join our dynamic startup, backed by Sequoia Capital.
- Be part of a team backed by Sequoia Capital with a healthy runway
Visa & Work Authorization
- We are unable to sponsor visas at this time
This listing is sourced directly from Breeze's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.