Senior Software Engineer
Job Location:
Palo Alto, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Senior Software Engineer
Location: Palo Alto CA
Duration: Fulltime
Scope of Role
The payments product is an orchestration layer across 5 6 PSPs that boosts merchant conversion 5 10% per month vs. running on a single provider. The engineer hired here will improve and optimize payments surfaces processing billions in transaction volume build features and SDK components that other developers integrate into their own products and ship reliable infrastructure that they often productize themselves. Backend is Ruby on Rails (unconventional but learnable) frontend uses conventional technologies including . Tech stack is not a filter - high-agency zero-to-one engineering is.
What Youll Own
Improve and optimize payments surfaces processing billions in transaction volume
Build payments features and SDK components that developers integrate into their own products
Expand payment-method coverage to grow Whops reach for creators and merchants
Write world-class developer docs and interactive playgrounds for the SDKs and components you ship
Build clean interfaces and APIs for frictionless payments operations - and productize the infrastructure you build since there is no separate product layer to do it for you
MUST HAVE SKILLS
INCLUDE HOW THEY MEET ALL OF THE BELOW
Ex-founder or early engineer at a high-growth startup with a real dent - the core profile
Strongly backend OR strongly frontend - not superficially both
Built non-trivial systems zero-to-one and shipped them
Can evaluate and exercise judgment over AI-generated code - not just prompt-and-paste
Solves problems simply without overcomplication
High agency self-motivated comfortable without engineering managers or guardrails
Product-engineering mindset - opinions on UX ships features end to end
Can start within 2 weeks and commit to 5 days/week in-person in Palo Alto
Visa: US/Canadian citizen green card established H-1B or TN - no slow O-1 unless exceptional
0 6 years of relevant experience with seniority calibrated to the candidates track record
