# Senior Software Engineer, Payments

**Company:** [Warp](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/warp)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $138k – $284k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Payments, Fintech, Financial Infrastructure, Distributed Systems, Strongly Typed Languages, Payroll Engine, Tax Engine, Us Payment Rails, Global Payment Rails, Compliance
**Posted:** 2026-06-02

> As a Senior Software Engineer, Payments, you will build and own the financial infrastructure that powers Warp, including core ledgering, US and global payment rails, payroll engine, earnings calculations, and tax engines. This role requires deep technical expertise in financial systems and a focus on correctness, auditability, and reliability.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
* Own and scale Warp's core ledgering and payments infrastructure
* Develop and own the payroll engine, earnings engine, and tax engine
* Architect US and global payment rails for domestic and international payroll
* Build fault-tolerant, auditable financial systems designed to process billions of dollars
* Define the payments architecture roadmap in collaboration with the CTO

## You'll Be Good for This Role If You
* Have deep experience in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure
* Care intensely about correctness, auditability, and reliability
* Have owned payments or fintech infrastructure at a high-growth startup
* Understand the unique challenges of financial systems: idempotency, reconciliation, compliance
* Love hard infrastructure problems with direct business impact

## What You Need
* 5+ years of software engineering experience
* 2+ years working on payments, fintech, or core financial infrastructure
* Experience building highly reliable, fault-tolerant distributed systems
* Strong expertise in strongly typed languages
* Deep understanding of financial systems and their unique constraints
* Willingness to work from our NYC office five days a week

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