Recruiting from Scratch · 3 months ago
Engineering Lead - Payments
San Francisco, CA|Onsite
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $400K/yr
6+ years expRecruiting from Scratch is a talent firm that focuses on placing the best candidate for our clients. They are seeking an Engineering Lead for a fast-growing startup transforming the digital economy by empowering online entrepreneurs. The role involves leading the design and implementation of the payments infrastructure and mentoring other engineers while driving innovation in financial technologies.
Staffing Agency
Responsibilities
Lead the design, implementation, and scaling of the payments infrastructure, ensuring a secure and seamless experience for sellers and buyers
Triage, assess, and mitigate fraud at scale—across over 40,000 daily transactions and 150,000 active users
Collaborate cross-functionally with product, legal, compliance, and GTM teams to shape product requirements and influence platform-level strategy
Make decisions about refunds, reserves, chargebacks, and seller onboarding risks through policy, automation, and engineering
Mentor other engineers and play a key role in hiring and growing the payments engineering team in San Francisco
Explore and deploy innovative financial technologies, such as banking-as-a-service and crypto integrations, to increase payment flexibility and resilience
Qualification
Required
6+ years of software engineering experience, including 1–2 years in a technical leadership or team lead role
Strong background in building secure, high-scale financial systems, with a deep understanding of payments, chargebacks, risk, and fraud management
Experience working at high-growth startups or top-tier technology companies (e.g. Stripe, Plaid, Square, PayPal, or similar)
Independent thinker who thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys high levels of ownership and autonomy
Demonstrated ability to make product-minded technical decisions that improve customer trust and platform safety
Preferred
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
Experience with modern backend frameworks (e.g. Ruby on Rails, Node.js, etc.) and frontend stacks (Next.js, TypeScript)
Familiarity with payments operations, seller risk modeling, or financial compliance tooling
Prior experience founding or working in early-stage startups is a strong plus
Benefits
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
New office setup in San Francisco
Flexible team-building resources
High-growth ownership track
Company
Recruiting from Scratch
A recruiting agency working with technology companies to help them hire software engineers, data roles, product managers, and hardware.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Will Sanders
Founder / CEO
Tom Callahan
Managing Partner, Retained Executive Search
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