Staff Software Engineer - Payments & Fraud (Remote)

Courtyard; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Fully remote

401(k) with 4% match

Dogfooding stipend

Wellness programs

Job summary

Courtyard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments team. You will own end-to-end payment features across web and mobile, from API design to checkout interfaces, while balancing fraud controls and a seamless customer experience.

We value real payments experience, front-end depth with TypeScript/React, and strong back-end capabilities. This remote-first role offers opportunities to expand into new markets and payment methods across a flexibly remote organization.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong front-end depth with TypeScript and React in production.
• Experience with API design, services, relational databases and cloud deployments.
• Real payments experience: processor integrations, lifecycles, webhooks and disputes.
• Experience building payment UIs with hosted fields and tokenization (PCI-compliant).
• Experience with fraud prevention: risk rules, scoring, 3DS and device signals.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end payment feature development across back-end services and checkout interfaces.
• Lead front-end contributions for checkout, payment method selection, and 3D Secure routing.
• Develop fraud and risk systems with real-time scoring and rules.
• Assist in handling disputes and automating evidence flow.
• Ensure reliable payment flows with safe retries, webhook processing and observability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across the Payments team.

Skills

TypeScript & React

Payments experience

Fraud prevention

API design

SQL & data analysis

Mobile experience

Tools

Next.js

Job description

Courtyard is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Payments team. You will own end-to-end payment features across web and mobile, from API design to checkout interfaces, while balancing fraud controls and a seamless customer experience.

We value real payments experience, front-end depth with TypeScript/React, and strong back-end capabilities. This remote-first role offers opportunities to expand into new markets and payment methods across a flexibly remote organization.