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PayNearMe

Senior API Engineer - Remote

PayNearMe, Santa Clara, California, us, 95053


Company Description

PayNearMe develops award-winning technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to manage and accept payments. The company enables more ways to pay by offering all major payment types and channels in a single platform. PayNearMe is the technology company that's changing how payments are made.

We are a diverse and collaborative company that loves to delight its customers (merchants, consumers, etc.) with simple, useful and practical product/service offerings. 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 US. Help us reimagine payments!

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 API 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.

Job DescriptionYou'll be the primary owner of our APIs, helping us optimize and extend themFor our existing APIs:

Build out performance tests for the high-usage calls (we use K6)Use the results to tune these calls to be as efficient as possible (reader nodes, caching, etc)Tune the default behavior for new clients to return minimal resultsEnsure that our logging and monitoring is sufficient to detect potential problems (we use Datadog)

Our APIs currently use an antiquated signature system, which requires much hand-holding

We have taken the first step towards OAuth 2.0 for one client (using Kong)We want to make OAuth 2.0 available to all clients, running incoming requests through KongAll of our APIs should run through this path so that Kong can do as much auth and validation as possible

We use ReadMe to host our API documentation, with some well written documentation

Own the OpenAPI specification for our APIsWe need to point ReadMe at a separate and firewalled deployment and install an authentication system for clients to use

With the experience gained above, start working on the next generation of APIs

How do we redesign them to be simple, modular and fast?How do we design for 10x and beyond using horizontal scaling?

Qualifications

Superb Ruby on Rails skills, with a minimum of 10 years of current Ruby on Rails experienceSkilled at coding in Javascript, used in our performance test harnessExperience and expertise building highly performant and high-throughput Ruby/Rails back-endsExperience with Go is a plus, but not requiredExperience building APIs, working with OpenAPI, and preferably Kong as wellFamiliarity with query optimization and web stack tuning (garbage collection, caching, throttling)Experience writing well instrumented code that can be monitored (we use Datadog)Understand the impacts of locking, network latency, batching, caching and I/O on software performanceA proven track record in bringing clarity to ambiguous situationsAbility to facilitate technical discussions, and to make challenging calls in a distributed team environmentFamiliarity with the AWS ecosystemExperience serving as a Tech-LeadAdditional Information

Benefits

Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)Fast- paced and professional work cultureStock 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 setupReimbursement 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 insurancePaid parental bonding leavePaid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement401k planFlexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)Volunteer Time Off13 scheduled holidays2x / 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.

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do the right thing . We deliver

real results

we are proud of while remaining

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transparent , and

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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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