The Senior Engineer I will develop and enhance the Consumer Payment Portal, focusing on payment processing, UX, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure quality code delivery.
Why TrueML?
TrueML is a mission-driven financial software company that aims to create better customer experiences for distressed borrowers. Consumers today want personal, digital-first experiences that align with their lifestyles, especially when it comes to managing finances. TrueML’s approach uses machine learning to engage each customer digitally and adjust strategies in real time in response to their interactions.
The TrueML team includes inspired data scientists, financial services industry experts and customer experience fanatics building technology to serve people in a way that recognizes their unique needs and preferences as human beings and endeavoring toward ensuring nobody gets locked out of the financial system.
About the team:
While TrueML is building FinTech SaaS products across the debt servicing industry, our mission as the Consumer Payment Portal product team is to create intelligent solutions and services that allow our customers to easily pay down their financial obligations.
As a Senior Engineer I on our team, you will help us fulfill this mission by applying your strong technical and analytical skills to develop and extend our payments platform infrastructure to continue to process financial transactions safely, securely and consistently. You will work with our payment processing partners and gateways to identify new workflows with an eye on giving our consumers more options to suit their needs, such as alternative payment methods or flexible payment scheduling.
In this role, you will collaborate closely with the UX, Design, and Experimentation teams to build and maintain a seamless front-end web experience, enabling consumers to easily make payments and manage their accounts. You will possess a strong understanding of both patterns and anti-patterns, effectively applying them in your work. You will keep up with industry news and take initiative in introducing innovative techniques to our company.
Work-Life Benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical benefit contributions in congruence with local laws and type of employment agreement
What You'll Do:
- You'll work with a collaborative & cross-functional team, including other engineers, Product Management, Program Management, to translate requirements into technical realities.
- You'll write clean, high-quality, well-tested, readable & maintainable code; mostly in Golang and/or Typescript (React).
- Contribute ideas and input to help ensure deliverability against roadmap & objectives.
- Make well-reasoned decisions about the trade-offs between design & development trade-offs, balancing quality/performance & speed of delivery.
- Work with a distributed, multinational, and bilingual team with the need to switch back and forth between English & Spanish seamlessly (including for technical topics).
- Contribute to the team's efforts as a Fullstack Engineer (estimated at 40|60 : FE|BE).
- Work on Payments-focused systems, products, and infrastructure.
- Help grow the team by participating in interviewing & hiring processes.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (in Computer Science or similar technical or engineering focus), or equivalent professional experience, and...
- 5+ years of professional experience as a Software Engineer or Developer.
- Experience with Golang.
- Experience with Typescript & React (similar experience also considered).
- High autonomy and ability to hit deadlines & deliverable with little oversight.
- You have experience in cloud-native environments (AWS preferred).
- Ideally, you have experience in payments technology - but if not then experience in similar high-throughput mission-critical systems would be valuable to your success.
- High degree of professional fluency in English (and Spanish).
- Open to candidates based in Mexico or Argentina only.
We are a dynamic group of people who are subject matter experts with a passion for change. Our teams are crafting solutions to big problems every day. If you’re looking for an opportunity to do impactful work, join TrueML and make a difference.
Our Dedication to Diversity & Inclusion
TrueML is an equal-opportunity employer. We promote, value, and thrive with a diverse & inclusive team. Different perspectives contribute to better solutions, and this makes us stronger every day. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Top Skills
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Payment Processing
React
Ux
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