Founding Software Engineer - Global Payments Platform

Withacclaim; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Acclaim is building the financial infrastructure powering the global insurance industry. We seek a Founding Software Engineer to own features from concept through production and help establish our engineering culture.

You will work directly with founders and collaborate with Product and Customer Success to launch new payment capabilities for insurers worldwide. This is an opportunity to solve complex problems where quality, precision, and scalability matter.

Qualifications

• Experience building production web applications and APIs.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Desire to own problems from start to finish.

Responsibilities

• Own features from technical design through production.
• Build secure, scalable APIs for global payment workflows.
• Develop intuitive customer and internal experiences using React.
• Improve platform performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Participate in architecture and technology decisions.
• Review code and help raise engineering standards.
• Write clear technical designs and documentation.
• Help launch new payment products for customers.

Skills

Production web apps & APIs

Strong software engineering

Ownership mindset

Startup experience (nice to have)

Tools

Symfony

React

AWS

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Acclaim is building the financial infrastructure powering the global insurance industry. We seek a Founding Software Engineer to own features from concept through production and help establish our engineering culture.

You will work directly with founders and collaborate with Product and Customer Success to launch new payment capabilities for insurers worldwide. This is an opportunity to solve complex problems where quality, precision, and scalability matter.