Senior Software Engineer, PaymentsSan Francisco

Whipple Learning Cove; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage

Equity ownership

Wellness stipend

Travel stipend

Job summary

Whipple Learning Cove is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own the engineering behind a payments platform in our San Francisco office. You will consolidate legacy integrations into a clean, reliable system and work directly with customers to understand real‑world failure modes.

The role requires a strong payments background, attention to detail, and the ability to move fast on a small team with close collaboration with product and leadership.

Qualifications

• Senior engineer with strong payments background and fintech experience.
• Experience building payment systems and integrations is a plus.
• Comfortable working closely with customers and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Consolidate and refactor a payments system built from legacy integrations.
• Maintain integrations across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and billing.
• Own orchestration and reconciliation layer across third‑party fintech partners.

Skills

Payments systems

Payments integrations

Customer collaboration

Job description

Senior Software Engineer, Payments

Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill)

Company Overview

Mission: Make high-quality early childhood education accessible to all by empowering childcare providers with tools and support while helping parents find quality learning environments.

What We're Building: A category-defining platform at the intersection of marketplace, SaaS, and public sector systems, increasingly powered by AI. Series B backed by a16z, Goldman Sachs, and First Round.

The Role

Own the engineering behind a payments platform that processes at least $3 billion through our platform, working alongside a small, dedicated team. We move money across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll. We run our own billing platform and lean on third‑party partners for most of our fintech capabilities, so much of this is integration, orchestration, and tracking work. There is a lot to build here. You will consolidate and refactor a system built across many legacy integrations into something clean, reliable, and fast, and you will spend a lot of time directly with customers.

What You'll Do

• Build alongside a dedicated payments team: consolidate and refactor a payments system assembled from many legacy system integrations
• Build and maintain integrations across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform
• Own the orchestration and tracking/reconciliation layer across our third‑party fintech partners
• Design for correctness first, because money movement demands it
• Work directly with customers to understand real‑world failure modes and edge cases
• Partner daily with product to build, ship, measure, and iterate
• Build within the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services

Who You Are

• Senior engineer with a strong payments background and real experience building payment systems and integrations (fintech a plus)
• Exceptionally high attention to detail; strong finance background is a plus
• Excited to be close to the build and close to customers
• Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action
• Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking, and cards
• Uses AI tools and figures things out independently

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: Competitive market rate
• Equity: Significant, meaningful ownership
• Full health coverage
• Wellness stipend (gym and office)
• Travel stipend for certain circumstances

Application

Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments or integration system you have built.

This is a full‑commitment, full‑ownership role, based in our San Francisco office. You will work very closely with the CEO, in office five to six days a week.