Senior Software Engineer - Cards

Jobgether; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 167,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and RSUs

Remote-friendly in US/Canada

Location flexibility

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Senior Software Engineer - Cards in the United States to design and scale card infrastructure that powers spending for businesses. You will own full-stack features, from customer-facing experiences to backend settlement and money movement, while guiding others and setting engineering standards.

You will mentor teammates and collaborate with product, design, risk, and operations to deliver reliable, compliant solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience with card payments or fintech is a plus.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to mentor engineers and raise technical standards.
• Experience delivering production-grade, reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects from concept to launch across frontend and backend.
• Deeply understand card payment processes: authorization, settlement, and dispute management.
• Build features for card experiences and backend money movement systems.
• Improve reliability, observability, and incident prevention across critical systems.
• Contribute to architecture and evolution of card issuance, lifecycle management, and reporting.

Skills

Full-stack

Product mindset

Systems design

Mentoring

Tools

Haskell

TypeScript

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Software Engineer - Cards based in the United States.As a Senior Software Engineer, you will help build and scale the card infrastructure that enables businesses to manage their spending reliably and seamlessly. You will contribute across the full stack, from customer-facing card experiences to the backend systems responsible for authorization, settlement, and money movement. Working in a collaborative, product-focused engineering team, you will lead projects from initial design through implementation and launch. You will help maintain highly reliable financial systems where accuracy, observability, and operational excellence are essential. This role offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise in payment systems while shaping innovative debit and credit card products. You will also mentor fellow engineers and work closely with cross-functional partners to deliver meaningful improvements for customers.

Accountabilities

• Lead engineering projects from initial concept and technical specification through implementation, testing, and launch, collaborating with product managers, engineering managers, technical leads, and teammates.
• Develop a strong understanding of card payment processes, including authorization, clearing, settlement, and dispute management, and apply this knowledge to technical decisions.
• Build and improve full-stack features spanning customer-facing card experiences and backend systems responsible for financial transactions and money movement.
• Maintain operational excellence across critical systems by improving reliability, observability, monitoring, and incident prevention.
• Contribute to the architecture and evolution of systems that support card issuance, physical card delivery, spending controls, card lifecycle management, settlement, and reporting.
• Mentor other engineers and strengthen engineering quality through design discussions, code reviews, technical guidance, and collaborative problem-solving.
• Partner with teams across product, design, operations, risk, compliance, sales, and other functions to deliver cohesive solutions.
• Balance the development of new features with the ongoing maintenance, accuracy, and reliability of existing functionality.

Requirements

Key qualifications include:

• Extensive full-stack software engineering experience, with the ability to work across frontend and backend systems.
• A strong product mindset, systems-thinking capabilities, and a proven ability to deliver projects from planning through production.
• Experience making architectural decisions for complex systems and clearly explaining technical reasoning, trade-offs, and long-term implications.
• A strong focus on delivering customer value while maintaining the stability, performance, and reliability of existing features.
• Attention to detail and a commitment to correctness in systems where failures can have significant financial consequences.
• Clear communication skills, comfort navigating ambiguity, and a collaborative approach to working across teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical standards, design reviews, and code quality.
• Familiarity with Haskell and TypeScript, or a willingness and ability to learn these technologies.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or card issuing is an advantage but is not required.

Benefits

The total rewards package combines competitive compensation with equity and additional employee benefits. Offer details depend on experience, expertise, geographic location, and internal pay equity.

• US base salary: $166,600-$208,300 USD annually for employees based anywhere in the United States.
• Canadian base salary: $157,400-$196,800 USD annually for employees based anywhere in Canada.
• Equity compensation, including stock options and/or restricted stock units (RSUs).
• Additional employee benefits as part of the total rewards package.
• Location flexibility, with the role available remotely within the United States or Canada, as well as in San Francisco, California; New York, New York; and Portland, Oregon.