PayNearMe develops technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to accept, disburse and manage payments. Our modern and reliable platform lowers the total cost of payments by increasing acceptance rates, driving self-service and simplifying exceptions. We future-proof our clients’ payments roadmap by including all payment types and channels through a single contract and integration. With PayNearMe, businesses can transform the outdated systems holding them back from achieving progress.

PayNearMe has over 200 employees, closed a $45M Series D round in June 2023, and is processing over $1B in payments monthly. We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley with our employees distributed all across the U.S. Help us solve our clients’ biggest payment problems.

We’re looking for a very skilled Ruby on Rails engineer to join a small but dynamic performance team, reporting to the CTO, in the role of Senior Performance Engineer. This position blends the analytical skills of a data analyst, the instincts of a high-performance coder, the imagination to come up with highly-performant designs, the drive to push your projects to completion, and the ability to work effectively with other teams. We love people who used to be the "go-to" person at their previous companies, but are now wanting to be part of a talented team. Our goal is to make our platform fully horizontally scalable.

Job Description

Helping us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalability
Write and extend test-harness scripts in Javascript to load-test specific components in our platform
Use the load-tests to analyze current performance characteristics
Remove load from the primary database through caching, reader nodes, query optimizations and improved algorithms
Roll out changes in a controlled and reversible way
Help us re-architect existing components for horizontal scalability
Work with cloud-native infrastructure (we use AWS)
Working independently, but closely with a few others
If you have great leadership skills, this position could lead to a management position

Qualifications

Superb Ruby on Rails skills, with a minimum of 10 years of current Ruby on Rails experience
Skilled at coding in Javascript, used in our performance test harness
Experience and expertise building highly performant and high-throughput Ruby/Rails back-ends
Experience with Go is a plus, but not required
Familiarity with query optimization with an intuitive understanding of database characteristics
Experience with database sharing is a plus
Experience writing well instrumented code that can be easily monitored (we use Datadog)
Understand the impacts of locking, network latency, batching, caching and I/O on software performance
A proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situations
Ability to facilitate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls in a distributed team environment
Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem
Experience serving as a Tech-Lead

Additional Information

Benefits

Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)
Fast- paced and professional work culture
Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
$50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
$250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
Paid parental bonding leave
Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
401k plan
Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
Volunteer Time Off
13 scheduled holidays
2x / year in-person team meet-ups (2-3 days, company paid)

Salary Range: $185,000 - $215,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in this together to do the right thing. We deliver real results we are proud of while remaining respectful, transparent, and flexible.

PayNearMe is an equal opportunity employer. We are diligently and thoughtfully working towards cultivating a diverse workforce which in turn, enhances our products and services for the communities we serve. Applicants who represent all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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