Senior Software Engineer, Wonderschool
Payments
+ Equity
5+ days a week in office (Rincon Hill, CA)
Marketplace for child care
Be an early applicant
Marketplace for child care
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
5+ days a week in office (Rincon Hill, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To ensure every child has access to early education that helps them realize their potential.
Role
Who you are
- Senior engineer with a strong payments background and real experience building payment systems and integrations (fintech a plus)
- Exceptionally high attention to detail; strong finance background is a plus
- Excited to be close to the build and close to customers
- Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action
- Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking, and cards
- Uses AI tools and figures things out independently
What the job involves
- Own the engineering behind a payments platform that processes at least $3 billion through our platform, working alongside a small, dedicated team. We move money across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll, we run our own billing platform, and we lean on third-party partners for most of our fintech capabilities, so much of this is integration, orchestration, and tracking work
- There is a lot to build here. You will consolidate and refactor a system built across many legacy integrations into something clean, reliable, and fast, and you will spend a lot of time directly with customers
- Build alongside a dedicated payments team: consolidate and refactor a payments system assembled from many legacy system integrations
- Build and maintain integrations across banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform
- Own the orchestration and tracking/reconciliation layer across our third-party fintech partners
- Design for correctness first, because money movement demands it
- Work directly with customers to understand real-world failure modes and edge cases
- Partner daily with product to build, ship, measure, and iterate
- Build within the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services
- This is a full-commitment, full-ownership role, based in our San Francisco office. You will work very closely with the CEO, in office five to six days a week
Application process
- Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments or integration system you have built
Our take
Wonderschool is a digital platform that enables parents and families to identify and connect with programs and preschools for infants and toddlers. The app has a huge database of potential providers, and uses intelligent software to identify the best child care and microschools for children.
This is an important service, as there are problems at both ends of the pipeline. Educators and carers are often paid insufficiently, while many parents struggle to find suitable education programs for their children. Wonderschool promises to solve those problems, while also providing a bespoke service that ensures that children get the care that they really require.
The childcare management platform has been instrumental in improving the quality and accessibility of care to children, as well as increasing the salaries of childcare professionals. It is fast-growing and can expect to continue this way following funding and partnerships.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$25m
SERIES B
Aug 2018
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.1m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO: 10 paid holidays, one week company winter break between Christmas and New Years and quarterly mental health refresh days
- Wellness: Monthly gym membership stipend
- Remote: Hybrid work environment and stipend for new employees to set-up your home office and a monthly wifi stipend
- Health: Up to 100% coverage for employee premiums and up to 80% for dependents
- Parental leave: Parental leave for employees after 6 months of employment
- Autonomy: We prioritize health and wellness to ensure employees can produce their best work while achieving their personal and professional goals
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Bennett
(CEO)Earned a BSc in Economics from UPenn Wharton School. Private Equity Associate at Heitman. Co-founder and CEO of Soldsie. Co-founded Wonderschool in 2016.
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