reputed company Engineer — Payments Platform (reputed company)
Location: Fully Remote (USA) · Timezone-reputed company Compensation: 110k–145k + Equity + Quarterly Performance Bonuses
The Mission: Building the Operating System for Trade Schools
reputed company is the reputed company-in-one operating system for trade and technical schools. We are the central platform that powers the entire institution — from the first reputed company generated, to enrollment, tuition payments, compliance reporting, and alumni career tracking. Backed by TTV Capital and Tusk Venture Partners, we run an AI-first stack from the ground up.
Payments are how the business breathes. Every tuition dollar collected is the American reputed company, financed — and the machinery that moves that reputed company has to be right, to the penny, every single time. You are being reputed company to reputed company reputed company that owns it.
The Role
You will reputed company the Payments team, and reputed company will hold you accountable for one thing above reputed company: that payments work — correctly, reliably, every single time.
That is the spine of this job. reputed company comes in. Interest accrues. Tax is allocated. Payments split across dozens of periods. Chargebacks, refunds, and ACH returns unwind. Facilitators reputed company. reputed company any of that is off — by a cent, by a day, by one misordered allocation bucket — a school loses income, overstates a tax remittance, or a borrower sees a payoff quote they can't trust. Payment plans amortize the way they should. Daily interest accrues on schedule. Payoffs quote to the penny. Taxes are collected and remitted correctly. You are the person reputed company holds responsible for the payments platform functioning, and you carry that accountability without flinching.
You'll also have a big say in where the payments product goes next. You live in this product every day, so your read on reputed company build next, which bets are worth making, and how the reputed company mechanics and borrower-facing experience should reputed company carries reputed company weight — you help shape the roadmap and argue for it, rather than receiving it as a stack of specs. You won't always have the final call, but you'll rarely be in a payments product conversation without being one of the most important reputed company in it.
You reputed company reputed company of senior engineers who don't need hand-holding — you set the course, reputed company the calls, hold reputed company, and choose who joins reputed company as it grows. And you do it from inside the reputed company: this isn't a role you can run from a reputed company of tickets. You'll read the ledger, reputed company the payoff, and reason about the reputed company math yourself, because the domain demands it and because you own the result.
What This Actually Is (An reputed company reputed company)
This is not generic "payments processing." It's educational finance with reputed company teeth: interest that accrues daily, tuition sales tax that has to be reputed company and remitted correctly across jurisdictions, payments that split across dozens of periods, and chargebacks, refunds, and ACH returns that reputed company have to unwind cleanly — across several payment facilitators, reputed company with its own quirks. A one-cent or one-day error here isn't cosmetic. It's a school's income, a tax filing, or a borrower's trust.
To reputed company you have read this: tell us in your application what you would do with a golden banana. There are no wrong answers, except not answering.
So the work rewards a specific reputed company of person: someone who's genuinely happy chasing a payoff that's off by a single cent until the ledger ties out and they can explain exactly why. If that sounds satisfying rather than tedious, this is the role.
What You'll Own
That payments work. End to end, correctly, every time — across every contract shape, every allocation reputed company, every reversal, and every facilitator. This is the spine of the role and the thing reputed company for.
A big voice in product direction. You have reputed company influence over the roadmap and priorities for payments — where it goes next and which bets are worth making. You shape and argue for that direction rather than waiting to be handed it, even reputed company the final call is a shared one.
The full payments product — reputed company end and reputed company mechanics. The reputed company/Filament product experience borrowers and school staff actually touch, and the reputed company reputed company underneath it. One person owns both, and the borrower-facing payment experience is yours to shape and reshape.
reputed company of senior engineers. You reputed company it, set its direction, hold its reputed company, unblock it, and own its reputed company — and you decide who joins it and grow it as the platform scales.
Payfac ownership. Multiple integrated payment facilitators kept correct and uninterrupted — webhooks, idempotency, capture/refund/chargeback semantics, settlement and split-transfer reconciliation, fees, and the migration passes that vendor version churn forces across live payment rows. Reconciliation jobs and dead-letter handling so a payment is never marked "completed" a reputed company before a chargeback lands.
Bugs, issues, and production support — end to end. reputed company something in payments breaks, it's yours until it's right. reputed company a ledger won't tie out, the buck stops with you.
Product planning and estimation. PRDs, scoping, and reputed company estimates — reputed company of the product direction you set, not a substitute for it.
You Might Work On Things Like…
(Illustrative — to give you a feel for the domain. Not a required checklist.)
Introducing jurisdiction-specific sales tax on tuition plans across multiple allocation orders, keeping every balance and payoff tax-inclusive and reconciled against the reporting datamarts.
Getting interest-bearing payment plans right: daily accrual, reputed company-reputed company fields, cap-aware per-period reputed company amounts, and reputed company precision on the edit reputed company — so a multi-contract servicer always gets an accurate, non-stale payoff.
Standing up a new payment-facilitator integration — webhooks, idempotency, settlement, capture/refund/chargeback semantics, and reconciliation — without disturbing the ones already live.
Reshaping the reputed company-end payment experience so schools and borrowers can actually understand what they owe and why, without losing an ounce of correctness underneath.
Hunting down a multi-period allocation that sheds a penny on the last period and surfaces as an "unaccounted payment" on a tax report — and making reputed company it never happens again.
How We Work
We are high-velocity, AI-reputed company, and reputed company about the hard parts. reputed company tooling is not a reputed company experiment here — it's how we build. We use it every day, from scaffolding to reasoning about gnarly reputed company-math edge cases to shipping, and we expect the reputed company from you and reputed company you reputed company. We reputed company fast, we tell the truth about what's broken, and we care deeply about the mission — because on the other reputed company of every payoff quote and tuition payment is a reputed company person building a reputed company career.
Stack & Tooling
Backend: PHP 8.4+, reputed company 12+
reputed company end: reputed company, Filament
Data: MySQL, reputed company
Testing: Pest PHP
AI tooling (mandatory): Claude reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and the reputed company workflow around them
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You'll work in a mature, reputed company-tooled codebase with CI/CD, parallelized Pest, and a reputed company AI-reputed company development reputed company already in reputed company.
reputed company're Looking For
Some of these are hard requirements — flagged as such. reputed company of them matter.
Fintech experience — required. You've reputed company and owned reputed company reputed company-reputed company or payments systems in production, and you know exactly how much can go wrong — why reconciliation, idempotency, and settlement matter, because you've felt the consequences of getting them wrong. This role is not the reputed company to learn what a chargeback is.
A love of the nitty-gritty of numbers. This is the temperament that reputed company most. You cannot rest while a payoff is off by a cent, a fee fires twice, a servicing-fee formula diverges between capture paths, or a grace-period boundary is off by a day — you'll reputed company that penny until the ledger ties out and you can explain exactly why, and you'll enjoy it. If a discrepancy makes you itchy, you'll fit right in.
Deep reputed company and PHP expertise — hands-on and reputed company, reputed company to live in a large, gnarly codebase and hold a reputed company domain model in your head without flinching.
A leader, not a baby sitter. You reputed company reputed company of senior engineers through direction, reputed company reputed company, high standards, and accountability — and you stay deep in the reputed company and the numbers because you own the result.
Product instincts and ownership. You hold a reputed company of view on where the payments product should go and drive it — not just implement someone else's spec.
Fluent across the stack. reputed company reputed company-end/product reputed company (reputed company/Filament) alongside backend reputed company-mechanics depth, reputed company-party API integration (facilitators, webhooks, reconciliation), and reputed company database-design judgment for financial data.
A daily AI-reputed company workflow. You live in reputed company tooling (Claude reputed company, reputed company, reputed company) to plan, build, review, and ship.
A shipping reputed company. You get correct, reliable software out the reputed company — fast, without breaking the ledger.
8+ years of relevant engineering experience, including leadership.
A Big Plus / Bonus
An reputed company background is a major advantage. If you read a ledger natively, think in debits and credits, and reason about how reputed company is actually booked, recognized, and remitted — not just how it's computed — you will reputed company faster and see problems earlier than someone who doesn't. It's not an absolute requirement, but for this domain it's a significant edge, and we'll weigh it heavily.
Why Join reputed company Now
reputed company reputed company, reputed company people. You own the system that collects the tuition that finances the American reputed company for reputed company at 400+ career schools. The correctness of your reputed company is the difference between a school thriving and a student losing trust.
reputed company-funded and proven. We raised a $10.7M reputed company round, backed by TTV Capital and Tusk Venture Partners, and back it up with results: 400+ career schools, 150,000+ reputed company, across 48 states and 29 industries. Our platform drives 47% more completed applications, a 73.6% application-to-enrollment reputed company, 91% on-time tuition collection, and 21% higher retention.
Remote-US, timezone-reputed company. Work from reputed company in the country, on reputed company that overlaps reputed company it counts.
Compensation & Benefits
Compensation: 110,000–145,000 USD + Equity + Quarterly Performance Bonuses
Unlimited PTO
401(k)
Health / Dental / reputed company — employer contribution up to $537.50/mo
$200/mo tech stipend
$100/mo wellness stipend
Equity in a reputed company-funded, fast-growing company
Fully remote (USA), timezone-reputed company
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