Software Engineer, Payments

🕒 March 26

🏢🏡 San Francisco – Hybrid

💵 $164k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Side

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🏠 Real Estate

☁️ SaaS

Real Estate • SaaS

Side is a company revolutionizing the real estate industry by empowering top-producing agents, teams, and independent brokers to create and grow their own boutique real estate companies. With a focus on ownership, growth, productivity, and community, Side provides a platform that supports agents by handling back-office tasks, allowing them to focus on serving their clients and managing their businesses effectively without the burdens of operating a traditional brokerage. Side's technology streamlines transaction management, promotes productivity, and fosters a community of top agents who share best practices and growth strategies. Operating in several states, Side partners with high-achieving real estate professionals to help them achieve significant growth and success.

📋 Description

• Build, maintain, and improve backend services and APIs that support payments and commission disbursement workflows. • Collaborate with Product and cross-functional partners to turn business requirements into technical solutions. • Deliver medium-sized features independently, with support from senior engineers on larger or more complex initiatives. • Participate in system design discussions and contribute practical ideas around scalability, performance, reliability, and maintainability. • Write clean, well-documented, and well-tested code. • Create and maintain automated tests across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers. • Review code thoughtfully and incorporate feedback from others. • Troubleshoot production issues, debug complex backend workflows, and support operational excellence. • Identify technical debt and suggest pragmatic improvements. • Follow engineering best practices for security, observability, data integrity, and application performance. • Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity across prototyping, debugging, task management, documentation, and code review, while applying strong judgment to validate correctness, security, and maintainability.

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience building backend services and APIs in production environments. • Strong proficiency in JavaScript; TypeScript experience is a plus. • Solid experience with Node.js and backend web frameworks such as Fastify or Express. • Good experience in database schema design, data modeling, and SQL to build scalable and efficient data storage solutions. (PostgreSQL and TypeORM experience is a plus) • Strong experience with testing (unit, integration, and e2e) • Experience working with Git and GitHub in a collaborative development workflow. • Ability to break down technical problems and deliver maintainable solutions with guidance when needed. • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across engineering and non-engineering teams. • Good judgment around reliability, security, and performance in production systems. • Comfortable learning and adapting to new tools and workflows, including AI-assisted development tools.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Stock options • Best-in-class benefits, including 100% healthcare coverage (medical, vision and dental) • Flexible PTO • Learning & Development credit • Pet friendly environment