Software Engineer

What You’ll Do

• Build backend services
  Develop and maintain core services that handle data processing, transformations, and business logic.

• Design event-driven pipelines
  Craft idempotent, queue-based workflows (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) to process messages without duplication.

• Write clean, maintainable code
  Author services in Go (or a similar language) and SQL (Postgres or equivalent), following clear coding standards and review practices.

• Drive quality & reliability
  Implement unit, integration, and end-to-end tests; instrument metrics (throughput, latency, error rates) and alerts; rapidly diagnose and resolve issues.

• Collaborate & iterate
  Partner with Product and Operations to deliver features quickly; pair with teammates to share knowledge and continuously refine our tooling and processes.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: 4–7 years in professional software development, with mid- or senior-level responsibilities

• Technical Skills:

  • Strong in Go (or comparable backend language) and SQL (Postgres or equivalent)

  • Comfortable with event buses/queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)

  • Solid testing discipline: unit, integration and end-to-end

  • Familiarity with Git workflows, code reviews and CI/CD pipelines

• Mindset:

  • Quick learner who thrives in a fast-moving environment

  • Detail-oriented problem solver, especially around data consistency

  • Clear communicator and collaborative team player

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior work on payment platforms or financial/data reconciliation

• Hands-on experience integrating with QuickBooks Online, Xero, Netsuite or similar APIs

• Understanding of accounting principles (e.g. double-entry)

• Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)

• Basic compliance/security exposure (encryption, audit trails)

About Us:

Alternative Payments is a leading payments platform for service-based companies. Our innovative platform enables businesses to automate the entire accounts receivable process and reduce the overall expense of payment processing. We are dedicated to fostering growth and providing exceptional value to our clients.

Our Values

• Transparency & Honesty: We operate with transparency to our customers, investors, and other partners, every step of the way.

• Dependability: We are dependable. We do what we say we are going to do and we do not cut corners.

• Partnership: We are partners to our customers, investors, and each other, and work together to solve exciting massive problems.

• Revolutionary & Boldness: We are revolutionary & bold. We break down barriers and walls to build our own walls in a stronger, safer, and simpler manner.

• Diversity & Inclusion: We work together with people of all backgrounds and seek different viewpoints to generate stronger partnerships and create a stronger, more inclusive company and world.