Decisionly is building AI-powered dispute decisioning for card issuers, eliminating cost and enabling compliant, scalable card operations. Decisionly automates complex manual workflows end-to-end, modernizing payment infrastructure and generating unique first-party fraud insights for fintechs, processors and banks.
Our founding team has a strong track record and unique founder-market fit. We founded Chargehound (backed by Y Combinator, Khosla), the first automated dispute solution for merchants like Airbnb, Uber and Doordash. PayPal acquired Chargehound in 2021 for $XXXM.
Decisionly is growing rapidly, has strong market validation, and is backed by Fika Ventures, Vesey Ventures, Dash Fund, and angels from top fintechs including Stripe and Plaid. We are a remote company.
As an early hire, you'll play a critical role in shaping our product development.
The RoleWe're looking for a high-agency software engineer who thrives in a greenfield environment and likes building simple solutions for complex problems. As an engineer at Decisionly, you'll work directly with the CTO to shape the product and refine our technical vision. You'll be an early hire at a fast-growing fintech startup, working across the stack and taking ownership of key projects as we scale our product and acquire customers.
What You'll DoResearch and develop new features across our product and infrastructure
Build and maintain secure, scalable APIs for our service
Incorporate compliance and security considerations into our tech stack
Design and deploy infrastructure using Terraform and modern DevOps practices
Integrate with third-party APIs to expand product footprint
Act as a technical point of contact for customers
3+ years of backend development experience (within the payments industry is a plus)
Experience working with clients
Experience with Node and/or TypeScript
Experience with PostgreSQL or equivalent database
Able to tackle legacy systems or dense technical documentation with persistence and a sense of humor
Experience deploying LLMs to production environments
Familiarity with AWS, and preferably Terraform
A fast learner who thrives in a dynamic, unstructured environment
Experience in high-growth startups, fintech, enterprise SaaS, or regulated industries is a plus
Competitive compensation and equity package
Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
We are a remote-first team, but candidates must be based in the U.S.
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