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Salary: USD 160,000 - 185,000 / annual
inKind is building financial infrastructure that connects restaurants, diners, and capital in new ways. The platform powers real-time financial transactions and operational workflows for restaurants across the country.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll report to the Director of Engineering and work on mission-critical systems that support the restaurant payments ecosystem. This is a hands-on role focused on designing and building scalable infrastructure used daily by restaurants and partners.
Key responsibilities include:
**Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering**
Design and implement scalable distributed systems supporting financial transactions and real-time events. Architect services that handle real-world scale, failure scenarios, and performance constraints. Ensure strong data integrity and consistency across distributed workflows. Build secure infrastructure protecting sensitive financial data.
**AI-First Engineering**
Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows. Contribute to AI-enabled product features and automation across the platform. Help evolve how the team integrates modern developer tools and AI-assisted engineering practices.
**Reliability & Production Operations**
Design systems with observability, monitoring, and failure recovery in mind. Debug complex production issues across distributed services. Improve reliability and performance of mission-critical systems. Participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform stability.
**Cross-Functional Collaboration**
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 across the team.
The engineering team works with an AI-first mindset, leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate development and unlock new product capabilities. You'll collaborate closely with product, business, and engineering teams on systems that directly impact restaurants and partners who rely on inKind for real-time financial operations.
**Requirements**
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems
- Strong distributed systems design experience
- Expertise in at least one major web framework (Rails, Django, Express, Fastify, etc.)
- Strong database knowledge including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity
- Experience designing highly available production systems
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience scaling systems during periods of rapid growth
- Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems
- Experience implementing distributed patterns such as 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
