Senior Full-Stack Engineer - Payroll & Compliance Systems

HackerWeb; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meals on payroll days

In-person team in Soho

Job summary

Trayd, based in New York, is hiring a senior software engineer to build core systems powering payroll, compliance, and back-office workflows. This in-person role in Soho requires owning features end-to-end, designing scalable solutions, and shipping frequently in a high-trust fintech-like environment.

You’ll collaborate across product and operations, handle data migrations in Postgres, and make sound architectural tradeoffs while delivering real money systems with high reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software on a team.
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js fundamentals.
• Full-stack capable and comfortable across systems.
• High ownership mindset.
• Strong judgment balancing speed, correctness, and maintainability.
• Clear communication and collaboration across functions.
• NYC-based or relocate quickly.

Responsibilities

• Own major projects end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, and release
• Build full-stack features across the frontend, backend, and data layers in a production SaaS environment
• Design and evolve systems for payroll, deductions, benefits, compliance, and accounting workflows where correctness matters
• Model and migrate relational data in Postgres for complex real-world financial workflows
• Make strong architectural tradeoffs in ambiguous, fast-moving product environments
• Debug production issues, improve reliability, and drive problems through to resolution
• Collaborate closely with product and operations to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand how construction companies actually operate
• Contribute as a senior engineer through code reviews, design discussions, and raising the quality bar across the team

Skills

5+ years production software

TypeScript

Node.js

Full-stack

Ownership

Judgment

Communication

NYC relocation

Tools

React

Next.js

Prisma

tRPC

Postgres

Job description

Trayd, based in New York, is hiring a senior software engineer to build core systems powering payroll, compliance, and back-office workflows. This in-person role in Soho requires owning features end-to-end, designing scalable solutions, and shipping frequently in a high-trust fintech-like environment.

You’ll collaborate across product and operations, handle data migrations in Postgres, and make sound architectural tradeoffs while delivering real money systems with high reliability.