# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [inKind](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/inkind)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $185k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Web Frameworks, Ruby on Rails, Django, Express, Fastify, Databases, Query Optimization, Authentication, Authorization, Api Security, Observability, Event-Driven Architecture, AI Tools
**Posted:** 2026-09-10

> Design, build, and operate resilient distributed systems powering real-time restaurant payment workflows. The role requires 8+ years of production systems experience, strong database and security expertise, and experience with highly available architectures.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems supporting financial transactions and real-time events.
- Architect services for real-world scale, failure scenarios, performance constraints, data integrity, and consistency.
- Build secure infrastructure protecting sensitive financial data.
- Identify opportunities to use AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows.
- Contribute to AI-enabled product features and platform automation.
- Design systems with observability, monitoring, and failure recovery.
- Debug complex production issues across distributed services.
- Improve reliability and performance of mission-critical systems.
- Participate in on-call rotations.
- Partner with product and business teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead architectural decisions through hands-on implementation.
- Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards.

## Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems.
- Strong distributed systems design experience.
- Expertise in at least one major web framework, such as Rails, Django, Express, or Fastify.
- Strong database knowledge, including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity.
- Experience designing highly available production systems.
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design.

## Nice to Have
- Experience scaling systems during periods of rapid growth.
- Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems.
- Experience with retries, circuit breakers, and event-driven workflows.
- Experience working with or evolving large Rails applications.
- Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows or building AI-powered product features.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Salary: $160,000–$185,000 per year, depending on experience.
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Company-paid short-term disability.
- Employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees; vision coverage and dependent coverage options available at additional cost.
- Child care benefits and parental leave.
- Daily lunches and snacks for in-office team members.

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