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Senior Software Engineer

PayJoy76 open roles

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$268,000 – $275,000 a year
Where
San Francisco, CA
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Hybrid
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10.5% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. PayJoy postings stay open a median of 13 days.

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PayJoy median: 13 days open

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About PayJoy

PayJoy, a Public Benefit Corporation, is a mission-first credit provider dedicated to helping under-served customers in emerging markets to achieve financial stability and success. Our patented technology for secured credit provides an on-ramp for new customers to enter the credit system. Through PayJoy’s point-of-sale financing and card offerings, customers gain access to a modern quality of life. PayJoy’s credit also allows our customers to seize opportunities as micro-entrepreneurs, and acts as insurance for tough times. Through our cutting-edge machine learning, data science, and anti-fraud AI, we have served over 18 million customers as of 2025 while achieving solid profitability for sustainable growth.

This role

Position Overview |

PayJoy provides credit access to millions of customers across 11 countries. As we expand from smartphone financing to broader credit products, customer communication is vital to our product experience. The Senior Software Engineer, Communications Platform, will help design and build a consolidated, reliable, and observable messaging platform for SMS, email, and WhatsApp, collaborating closely with Identity, Fraud, CDP, and Onboarding teams.

Key responsibilities|

  • Design and build a centralized contact repository linking phone numbers, emails, hardware IDs, and user accounts.
  • Establish internal notification APIs with well-defined contracts, semantic versioning, clear documentation, and strict SLAs.
  • Implement dynamic traffic routing, vendor failover, and end-to-end delivery monitoring across providers like Twilio, Infobip, and WhatsApp.
  • Embed safety controls including rate limiting, deduplication, suppressions, channel preference ordering, and compliance rules into the platform.
  • Enhance data architecture and streaming pipelines to capture real-time delivery telemetry, reachability metrics, and per-message costs.
  • Migrate active notification workloads from legacy systems to the core platform without downtime.
  • Ensure high system availability and scale through monitoring, automated retries, idempotency controls, and traffic handling.
  • Maintain regulatory compliance and recordkeeping for outbound messaging across international markets such as India and Brazil.
  • Write clean, performant, and well-tested code following TDD practices with comprehensive test suites.
  • Create clear technical documentation and onboarding materials for internal teams adopting the platform.
  • Conduct code and design reviews while mentoring engineers on platform patterns and messaging best practices.

Qualifications |

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience focusing on backend infrastructure and distributed systems.
  • Hands-on experience with messaging channels (SMS, Email, Push, WhatsApp) and platforms like Twilio, Infobip, or SendGrid.
  • Experience designing multi-tenant APIs and internal platform services with clear SLAs and versioning controls.
  • Familiarity with event-driven architecture and streaming technologies such as Kafka, AWS SQS/SNS, or RabbitMQ.
  • Strong data modeling skills, including unifying user identity records across disparate systems.
  • Proficiency with system resilience patterns (retries, idempotency, rate limiting, failover) and monitoring tools like Datadog.
  • Strong proficiency with Git, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms like AWS or GCP.
  • Proficiency in core backend languages; PHP framework experience (Slim or Laravel) is a plus.
  • Knowledge of international messaging compliance, consent management, and suppression rules is desirable.
  • Background in fintech, digital lending, or regulated global industries is preferred.
  • Track record of executing zero-downtime production migrations.
  • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
  • Adaptable mindset with a passion for continuous learning and modern platform practices.
  • Strong sense of ownership, personal accountability, and technical precision.
  • Effective task prioritization and time management in a fast-paced engineering environment.

PayJoy is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and we welcome and encourage people of all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

PayJoy Principles

Finance for the next billion * Ownership * Break Through Walls * Live Communication * Transparency & Directness * Focus on Scale * Work-Life Balance * Embrace Diversity * Speed * Active Listening

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