Senior Software Engineer

About Us

Spreedly is the world's leading Open Payments Platform, sitting at the center of a network processing more than $50b of GMV annually. Spreedly's Payments Orchestration platform enables and optimizes digital transactions with the world’s most complete payment services marketplace. Built on Spreedly’s PCI-compliant architecture, our Advanced Vault solution combines a modern feature-set with rule-based configurations to optimize the vaulting experience for all stored payment methods. Global enterprises and hyper-growth companies grow their digital business faster by relying on our payments platform. Hundreds of customers worldwide secure card data in our PCI-compliant vault and use tokenized card data to enable and optimize over $45 billion of annual transaction volumes with any payment service.

Our vision is that the world is better with a diversified, inclusive payment ecosystem. Our mission is to accelerate commerce with an open, secure, and flexible payment platform that welcomes all payment participants. Our employees help us execute our vision by building a culture focused on autonomy, transparency, and collaboration in a dynamic, high-growth organization.

Product Offering

Spreedly provides an open payments platform. The platform’s connectivity provides payments performance. Key products and services include:

• Payment Gateway Integration: Connects merchants, platforms, and marketplaces to multiple payment gateways and payment services.
• Tokenization: Securely stores and manages payment data with a universal tokenization service.
• Transaction Routing: Enables intelligent routing of transactions to optimize success rates and costs.
• Payment Vault: A secure storage solution for sensitive payment information.
• Fraud Tools Integration: Integrates with various fraud prevention tools to enhance transaction security.

About the Role

The Senior Software Engineer role blends hands-on execution with technical leadership. You’ll work in a collaborative, pragmatic team of engineers who take ownership, improve continuously, and align closely with product and business goals.

This is a high-impact opportunity to lead by example—shipping quality code, driving architectural conversations, and helping your team deliver meaningful outcomes. You’ll work closely with engineering management, architects, and peers to shape how we scale our platform and our engineering culture.

Technologies We Use

Ruby, Rails, Elixir, JavaScript, Vue.js, Phoenix, CRDB, Heroku, Postgres, Kafka, AWS

Responsibilities

• Improve engineering workflows and the SDLC with a pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset
• Own the full lifecycle of features and systems—from design to deployment to ongoing support
• Lead the development of scalable APIs, services, and internal frameworks
• Collaborate across engineering, product, and other teams to align technical solutions with business goals
• Break down complex problems into clear, actionable work for yourself and others
• Act as a technical lead on high-priority projects or initiatives
• Proactively identify and solve operational and architectural challenges
• Support production systems with urgency and clarity during high-pressure incidents
• Lead root cause analysis and ensure systemic improvements are implemented
• Mentor other engineers, raise technical standards, and promote reusable patterns and shared context
• Stay current on tools, architectures, and best practices to support long-term platform health

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of experience building production systems using REST services, SOA, or microservices
• Demonstrated ownership of systems, features, or cross-functional initiatives
• 3+ years working in agile teams (Scrum, Kanban) with mature CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, design patterns, and SOLID principles
• Working knowledge of SQL/NoSQL databases, ORM/DAO concepts