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Butter Payments · 7 months ago

Software Engineer, Backend

positionUnited States
timeFull-time
remoteRemote
seniorityMid, Senior Level
money$115K/yr - $234K/yr
date5+ years exp

Butter Payments is on a mission to eliminate involuntary churn and make recurring payments seamless. In this role, you’ll leverage your data engineering and backend software development expertise to build data-heavy applications that provide value to customers and ensure seamless payment processes.

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Responsibilities

Build backend applications that interact with a variety of disparate APIs and data sources
Develop and grow client facing APIs that are flexible but standardize the data passed to them in a clean and consistent way
Orchestrate workflows using technologies such as AWS Step Functions and Temporal
Collaborate with data engineering, machine learning, and analytics teams to ensure that the data our applications are producing scales to meet needs across the company
Build data models into our applications that transpose the messy data of the outside world into clean data our applications can operate on
Develop and operate software in production

Qualification

PythonSQLAWSAPI designData engineeringSoftware engineeringAnalytical skillsDebugging skillsProblem solvingCommunication skills

Required

5+ years of professional experience between data engineering and software engineering roles
You've worked with Python and SQL in a previous role
You've worked with cloud based systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
You have experience writing and operating software in production
Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, and debugging skills
Can respond iteratively and rapidly to changes in business requirements

Preferred

BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
You have API design experience
Experience building systems with a State Machine architecture
Bonus points for Temporal or AWS Step Functions experience

Company

Butter Payments

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Butter provides a payments intelligence platform for resolving payment failures.
dateFounded in 2020
location
San Francisco, California, USA
people-size51-200 employees
web-link
https://www.butterpayments.com

H1B Sponsorship

Butter Payments has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1)
2023 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$38.75M
Key Investors
Norwest
2024-05-13Series Unknown· $10M
2023-01-11Series A· $22M
2021-09-01Seed· $4.5M

Leadership Team

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Sofya Pogreb
Chief Executive Officer
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Vijay Menon
Founder & President
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Recent News

FF News | Fintech Finance
Butter Payments Names Sonali Sambhus as Chief Technology Officer to Support Rapid Expansion and Platform Innovation
2025-11-07
Payments Dive
Executive Shuffle: Fiserv, Mastercard and DailyPay
2025-11-01
Business Wire
Butter Payments Appoints Industry Leaders to Drive Next Phase of Growth: Sofya Pogreb as CEO and Charles Rosenblatt as CCO
2025-10-23
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