Senior Payments Engineer - Own End-to-End Payment Rails

Revley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contract role with potential full-time

Job summary

Revley is hiring a Payments Engineer to own the payment rails at the heart of our platform. This independent contractor role offers the opportunity to convert to full-time and work closely with the founders and a small senior engineering team on systems that move real money for our customers every day.

The role demands shipping production payment systems end-to-end, making sound architectural decisions independently, and handling edge cases such as declines, retries, chargebacks, and

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of shipping production systems end-to-end.
• Strong backend engineering skills with deep experience in Node.js and TypeScript (NestJS or a comparable framework).
• Demonstrated experience integrating payment processors such as Stripe, Adyen, NMI, Airwallex, or Braintree.
• Working knowledge of payment tokenization, vaulting, and PCI compliance principles.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship multi-PSP payment routing across nine or more processors using strategy-pattern adapters in NestJS and TypeScript.
• Build and maintain network tokenization flows and processor-agnostic token storage at PCI Level 1.
• Design and implement subscription billing logic, including CIT checkout, MIT rebilling, authorization holds, captures, refunds, and voids.
• Build webhook consumers for asynchronous processor events across all PSPs.
• Design retry logic, dunning, and reconciliation flows that maximize approval rates and recover failed payments.
• Develop custom checkout experiences supporting credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal.
• Integrate with Shopify Admin and Storefront APIs for order creation, selling plan management, and merchant onboarding.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices.

Skills

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

Payment processing

SQL

PostgreSQL

PCI compliance

System design

Tools

Stripe

Adyen

NMI

Airwallex

Braintree

Job description

Revley is hiring a Payments Engineer to own the payment rails at the heart of our platform. This independent contractor role offers the opportunity to convert to full-time and work closely with the founders and a small senior engineering team on systems that move real money for our customers every day.

The role demands shipping production payment systems end-to-end, making sound architectural decisions independently, and handling edge cases such as declines, retries, chargebacks, and