Director of Engineering, Kajabi
Commerce
$200-237.5k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
Knowledge commerce platform for entrepreneurs
Open for applications
Knowledge commerce platform for entrepreneurs
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-237.5k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To enable online entrepreneurs to find success through powerful tools that elevate and grow their businesses.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years of experience leading engineering teams
- Leadership experience in the payments or fintech space would be ideal. leading engineering teams in payments or fintech
- Proven experience building and scaling payment platforms using Stripe Connect (Custom, Standard or Express) and PayPal integrations
- Deep understanding of payment workflows: merchant onboarding, escrow/payouts, dispute resolution, fraud detection, and compliance requirements
- Experience with white-labeled or embedded finance systems and third-party platform risk considerations
- Strong system design and architecture background, especially in high-availability, secure, and transaction-heavy systems
- Knowledge of KYC/AML, 1099 tax reporting, and international payment regulations
- Hands-on experience with modern backend stacks and cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Ruby on Rails, etc.)
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, set vision, and execute in a fast-paced startup environment
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
What the job involves
- Kajabi is looking for an experienced and strategic Director of Software Engineering to lead the Kajabi Platform product
- This pivotal leadership role is focused on building and scaling our checkout and embedded payment solutions for creators, leveraging platforms like Stripe (including white-labeled/custom Stripe Connect solutions) and PayPal to provide a world-class payment experience for our creators and their customers
- As the engineering leader for Kajabi Payments, you'll own the technical vision, architecture, and execution of our payment systems
- You'll lead a team of talented engineers and work closely with the Product, Finance, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Experience teams to ensure Kajabi Payments is performant, scalable, and compliant
- Lead Kajabi Payments Engineering: Drive the design, development, and operation of Kajabi's integrated payment systems
- Own all aspects of the payment lifecycle, including onboarding, payouts, refunds, chargebacks, reporting, compliance, and fraud prevention
- Stripe & PayPal Integration: Lead advanced implementations of Stripe Connect and PayPal, optimizing for creator experience and reliability
- Platform Ownership: Ensure Kajabi Checkout and Payments is a robust, secure, and scalable platform that supports thousands of creators and handles millions in monthly volume
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Compliance, Finance, and Customer Experience teams to align technical execution with business goals, legal requirements, and user needs
- Risk, Compliance & Security: Work closely with Legal and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with PCI-DSS, GDPR, and global payment regulations
- Proactively address fraud detection, risk scoring, and other payment processes
- Innovation & Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve authorization rates, reduce transaction costs, streamline onboarding, reduce risk, and deliver valuable financial tools to creators
- Team Leadership: Grow and mentor a team of engineers. Build a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and strong technical ownership
- You will be responsible for leading an established team of senior engineers as they continue to innovate and build the best-in-class payment processing system
- Impact: You'll shape the backbone of our creator economy by owning the financial platform that powers their businesses
- Team: Collaborate with smart, passionate people driven by helping others succeed
- Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company at the cutting edge of the creator economy and embedded finance
Our take
Kajabi is a monetization platform that provides creators with a chance to turn their learning concept into a polished digital product - whether that's a course, membership, podcast, coaching program, newsletter, or even a full community.
Kajabi solves the issue of convoluted business functions by providing many of the tools needed in one simple place; including payment integration, forecasting, progress tracking, a visual builder, and more. It supplies a range of plans to suit creators with audiences of varying sizes, allowing a range of users to turn their knowledge into income.
Kajabi has helped its customers build hundreds of thousands of products and secured an impressive amount of funding towards growing the business. Its acquisition of Vibely, a platform for creators to build and lead vibrant communities, further contributes to the platform's ability to enable creators to manage and build their businesses as they want.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$550m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $550m
Company benefits
- Fully paid health benefits
- Flexible vacation policy
- HSA contribution
- Generous company 401k matching
- Equity
- Free training resources
- Fitness incentive package
- Paid parental leave
- A fully-stocked office kitchen
- Nitro cold brew on tap
Company HQ
Quail Hill, Irvine, CA
Leadership
Ahad Khan
(CEO)Joined Kajabi in 2020 as COO and CFO before becoming the CEO in 2021. Previously a Senior Director of Business Operations and Programs at Microsoft, the COO and CFO at MileIQ, and the Vice President of Business Operations at Kiwi, Inc.
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