Senior Software Engineer, Payments & Ledger

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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BetterPool

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11 - 50 employees

BetterPool is a company with a focus on innovation, as evident from its branding and copyright notice. Though specific details about its operations are not provided in the text, the company's infrastructure to offer job openings suggests it is established and likely operates in one of many potential fields. The company's name implies a connection to pooling or collective services, but further information is needed for precise industry classification.

📋 Description

• Design and grow Splash’s double-entry ledger and wallet services • Own account structures for player cash, promotional balances, contest escrow, house accounts, and processor clearing • Build payment flows for cards and ACH and integrate future payment processors • Manage API versioning, idempotent APIs, webhook handling, retries, refunds, chargebacks, and payout orchestration • Own accounting for entry fees, rake, prize pools, promotions, and private contest fees • Implement real-time fraud and risk checks for deposits, withdrawals, and contest entries • Work with Trust and Safety on cases requiring human review • Automate daily three-way reconciliation among the ledger, processor settlement reports, and bank statements • Feed ledger and transaction data into Snowflake and dbt for finance reporting • Ensure exactly-once posting, safe concurrency, and regulator- and processor-ready audit trails • Participate in on-call rotations for payment systems • Collaborate directly with Finance, Compliance, game operations, marketing, Trust and Safety, and engineering teams in the US and Prague

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience • At least 2 years on production payments, fintech, wallet, or ledger systems that moved real money • Familiarity with and passion for regulated real-money gaming such as DFS, sportsbook, iGaming, or peer-to-peer contests • Experience with state-by-state compliance and geolocation is a bonus • Hands-on experience designing a ledger system • Understanding of accounting basics including debits and credits, chart of accounts, accruals, authorization versus settlement, and reconciliation • Experience integrating payment processors, including webhooks, idempotency keys, chargebacks, and settlement reports • Experience building or running fraud and risk controls, including rules engines, velocity checks, KYC and AML vendor integrations, and manual review tools • Proficiency with NodeJS and TypeScript • Deep knowledge of relational databases, ideally PostgreSQL • Understanding of isolation levels and locking, and designing schemas for append-only financial data • Strong SQL skills • Experience running scalable, highly available services in AWS, including PostgreSQL on RDS • Strong automated testing habits, including property-based or invariant tests for financial logic • Familiarity with Git and the standard toolkit • A computer science degree or equivalent experience • Experience with escrow or custodial account models is nice to have • Exposure to responsible gaming controls and tax reporting (W-2G, 1099) is nice to have • Experience with event-driven systems using SQS/SNS or Kafka, plus outbox patterns, is nice to have • Familiarity with Snowflake and dbt, or experience partnering with data teams on finance reporting, is nice to have • Proficiency with React for internal tools is nice to have • Ability to work remotely while based in the United States • Ability to participate in on-call rotations, including during major sporting weekends • PCI-aware handling of payment data and least-privilege access to financial systems

🏖️ Benefits

• Potential to earn equity in the company • Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance • 401K/Retirement Plan Options • Flexible PTO • Annual company retreats & team offsites • Frequent company-wide games with cash prizes • Opportunity to help build products for millions of fans across the country