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@PayJunction
[Hiring] Staff Engineer @PayJunction
Apr 04, 2025 - PayJunction is hiring a remote Staff Engineer. 💸 Salary: $175k - $190k/year plus benefits. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
We are seeking a Staff Engineer to own, lead, design, and implement high quality customer-centric features and improvements, enhancing our payment solutions that our partners rely on. Using the agile development process and analytical skills, they work to break down complex problems, mentor and delegate to teammates, and help to continually improve team collaboration and our software development cycle.
Responsibilities
- Own and manage project backlogs, status tracking, and reporting for multi-quarter initiatives, ensuring transparency and accountability.
- Participate in user interviews alongside Product Management to gather feedback and refine product direction.
- Lead technical discussions and decision-making for Product Requirement Documents (PRDs), ensuring alignment with stakeholders and documenting key architectural choices.
- Develop detailed architectural documentation, outlining implementation plans and alternative approaches.
- Create and refine a technical roadmap ensuring the team regularly invests in maintenance.
- Break down complex projects into well-defined tasks, delegating effectively to empower and develop the team.
- Write and refine well-groomed technical tickets, ensuring clarity and feasibility for implementation.
- Produce clear, accurate, and concise customer-facing documentation to support external users.
- Drive agile development processes by delivering high-quality work, regularly communicating project status, and meeting timeline expectations.
- Follow stringent testing, quality assurance standards and ensure compliance with relevant legal and industry standards (OWASP, PCI DSS, GDPR, etc.).
- Ensure steady project progress by proactively checking in with engineers, timely review of code with detailed feedback, and keeping tickets moving forward.
- Unblock technical challenges for both yourself and teammates, ensuring progress without unnecessary bottlenecks.
- Delegate effectively while maintaining focus on high-priority, complex engineering efforts.
- Mentor engineers through design, code, and demo reviews, offering guidance to overcome technical challenges.
Qualifications
- BS/BA in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field (Highly Preferred). Equivalent technical trade school experience with industry experience is acceptable.
- 8+ years of professional Java development (Jetty and Jakarta/Java EE preferred).
- 5+ years of professional web development using Angular (Reactive Forms, Directives, Routing, Services, RxJS). Deep understanding of HTML, CSS, DOM (events, lifecycle) and modern UI/UX best practices.
- 5+ years of system design, third-party integrations and architecture, ensuring SaaS applications are reliable, scalable, and secure while aligning with business goals.
- Testing & Quality skills, including unit testing (Jasmine, JUnit) and end-to-end testing (Selenium or similar frameworks).
- Strong knowledge of relational databases (MySQL, H2).
- Unix/Linux environments (Ubuntu/Debian, Mac).
- Observability & monitoring experience with Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.
- Infrastructure development including building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins) and infrastructure as Code (Puppet or similar).
- 5+ years of software engineering leadership & mentorship, including Agile development (Scrum), code reviews, and guiding junior engineers.
- Prior payments industry experience is highly desired.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision paid 100% by company for you and your dependents.
- 401k with 6% match.
- FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
- Long-term & short-term disability coverage for you paid 100% by company.
- 8 paid company holidays per year.
- 2 paid floating holidays per year.
- 1 paid volunteer day per year.
- Paid Time Off.
- Annual learning stipend.
- Home office equipment stipend.
- Quarterly “fun budgets” for team bonding events.
- Opportunity to be part of a company that is changing a whole industry.
- Opportunity for growth within the company.
- Opportunity for remote, in-office, or hybrid work.
Company Values
- Build the Dream
- Put People First
- Value Long Term Relationships Over Short Term Profit
- Make it Simple
- Be Data Driven
- Own It
Experience Requirements
Experienced
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$175k - $190k/year plus benefits
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USA
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Apr 04, 2025
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