PayNearMe
Senior Performance 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 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 DescriptionHelping us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalabilityWrite and extend test-harness scripts in Javascript to load-test specific components in our platformUse the load-tests to analyze current performance characteristicsRemove load from the primary database through caching, reader nodes, query optimizations and improved algorithmsRoll out changes in a controlled and reversible wayHelp us re-architect existing components for horizontal scalabilityWork with cloud-native infrastructure (we use AWS)Working independently, but closely with a few othersIf you have great leadership skills, this position could lead to a management positionQualifications
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 requiredFamiliarity with query optimization with an intuitive understanding of database characteristicsExperience with database sharing is a plusExperience 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 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.
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.
Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our job applicant privacy notice found at: https://home.paynearme.com/ccpa-privacy-notice-jobs-employees/
Assistance for Disabled Applicants
Alternative formats of this Notice are available to individuals with a disability. Please let us know if you need assistance.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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 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 DescriptionHelping us rewrite portions of our platform to unlock scalabilityWrite and extend test-harness scripts in Javascript to load-test specific components in our platformUse the load-tests to analyze current performance characteristicsRemove load from the primary database through caching, reader nodes, query optimizations and improved algorithmsRoll out changes in a controlled and reversible wayHelp us re-architect existing components for horizontal scalabilityWork with cloud-native infrastructure (we use AWS)Working independently, but closely with a few othersIf you have great leadership skills, this position could lead to a management positionQualifications
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 requiredFamiliarity with query optimization with an intuitive understanding of database characteristicsExperience with database sharing is a plusExperience 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 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.
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.
Candidate information will be treated in accordance with our job applicant privacy notice found at: https://home.paynearme.com/ccpa-privacy-notice-jobs-employees/
Assistance for Disabled Applicants
Alternative formats of this Notice are available to individuals with a disability. Please let us know if you need assistance.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.