[Hiring] Staff Software Engineer @Meadow

Role Description

Meadow is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale our student financial engagement platform, Meadow Pay. As we continue expanding to universities nationwide, this role will be critical in delivering reliable, scalable product experiences for our institutional partners and their students.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Lead end-to-end development of product features from design through deployment and ongoing support.
• Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs (TypeScript/Node.js).
• Contribute to frontend development using modern frameworks (React preferred).
• Design systems with reliability, observability, and maintainability in mind.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, CX, and Integrations teams to deliver customer-facing functionality.
• Participate in code reviews and uphold high standards for code quality and system design.
• Improve engineering processes, tooling, and documentation to support scale.
• Help shape technical decisions and engineering culture as we grow.

Qualifications

• 10+ Years of Experience in Product Engineering.
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Ownership: You demonstrate High Agency x High Urgency.
• Builder Mindset: You own problems end-to-end.
• Agency: You make significant decisions across projects and act on them without waiting for consensus.
• Decisions: You make high-stakes calls that hold up over time.
• Operational Excellence: You drive improvements to stability/performance/scalability of business-critical systems.
• Product Sense Empathy: You understand users broadly and deeply.
• Creativity: You generate original solutions to open, ambiguous problems.
• Taste: You hold the quality bar high across the full stack.
• Technical Depth: You make elegant decisions that reduce complexity.
• Problem Solving: You connect the dots to solve problems that span multiple components.
• Tooling & Verification: You set the verification and eval bar for safe changes.
• Tech Debt: You spot architectural debt and set standards to prevent re-accumulation.
• AI Fluency: You default to AI-first approaches where appropriate.
• Communication & Collaboration: You facilitate cross-pod discussions and guide hard debates to consensus.

Requirements

• Experience at an Early Stage Startup (Seed, Series A, Series B).
• Experience in FinTech (Or Other Regulated Industries).
• Experience as a People Manager and/or Technical Lead.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary.
• Competitive Equity.
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan.
• Subsidized Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (with HSA & FSA Plans Available).
• Flexible Paid Time Off.
• Paid Company Holidays.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• 1-2 Onsites Per Year.
• Membership in an Ambitious, Kind, No-Drama Team.