Software Engineer, Spendesk

• 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer, ideally in backend
• Development
• Experience with Node.js and TypeScript in production environments
• Experience building and maintaining REST APIs in a high-availability environment
• An understanding or interest in learning about event-driven architecture. Proficient in SQL and relational database design (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Experience writing comprehensive tests and working with modern CI/CD pipelines
• Comfortable collaborating across engineering, product, compliance, and operations teams
• Experience implementing and deploying applications on one or more cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) — itʼs our business language

Desirable

• We are looking for a talented Software Engineer to join our Cards team, a key part of the Payments Group at Spendesk
• As part of this highly skilled and collaborative team, you will work on one of the core products Spendesk offers — our card payments platform
• This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of our financial infrastructure, building scalable, secure, and reliable systems to manage customer funds, transactions, and card lifecycle operations
• The Payments Group oversees all money movement across Spendesk, including card issuance, wire transfers, balance management, and transaction processing
• As Spendesk operates as a regulated Financial Services Institution, this team plays a vital role in ensuring compliance, security, and operational reliability
• In the Cards team, you will collaborate closely with Card Operators, Compliance teams, banking partners, and other internal stakeholders to ensure we provide the best-in-class card payment experience to our customers — while maintaining the highest standards of system reliability and scalability
• This role offers broad exposure, from technical design and development to operations, monitoring, and process improvements, making it ideal for someone who enjoys working across the full software development lifecycle
• Design, develop, and maintain core components of Spendeskʼs card payment infrastructure, including card issuance, lifecycle management, and transaction processing
• Implement secure and efficient APIs for card operations and payment flows. Build and enhance internal tools to support card operations, compliance
• Monitoring, and fraud detection
• Work closely with the Product Manager to clarify requirements and contribute to technical design discussions
• Write well-documented, maintainable, and tested code to ensure the platform is resilient and easy to evolve
• Contribute to monitoring and alerting systems to ensure payment reliability and proactively address issues
• Participate in code reviews and knowledge sharing within the team to improve our engineering practices
• Collaborate with internal teams (Compliance, Operations, Customer Support) to investigate issues and help improve operational processes