Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) - Payments

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• Taskrabbit is a remote-first company with employees distributed across the USA!
• Builtin's "Best Places To Work", 5 lists including: Austin Best Midsize Companies to Work For & SF Best Places to Work!
• DataBird journal’s “Best Places” Best Companies for Diversity, #1 2019 and 2020
• DataBird journal’s “ Best Places” Best Companies for Women, #4 2019 and #1 2020

The Payments team is responsible for creating and maintaining billing and payment architecture, financial reporting, payment processing user interfaces, merchant applications, and consumer applications for everything related to accepting and providing payments. We strive to make money simple, helpful, and accessible for our customers and taskers.

As a Senior Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, enhancing & implementing payments backend systems. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop new payment features and integrate with payment processing systems.

Join us in creating a better everyday life for everyday people.

• Designing and implementing payment architecture. 
• Collaborating with other engineering teams to design APIs
• Create and maintain integration with payment processors
• Participate in code reviews, listening to feedback and commenting on other approaches
• Invest in the documentation of best practices and coding patterns
• Work with Product Managers, cross-team engineers, data engineers and user experience (UX) in Payments

• 5+ years of experience, comfortable working independently
• 2+ years professional experience developing with Ruby on Rails
• 2+ years of experience building billing, metering, and payments systems
• Experience building contract-first API-driven applications or endpoints
• Familiarity with automated testing in large Rails applications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Enjoy helping organize and scope high-priority projects and plans to keep us moving forward.
• Have great attention to detail and quality.
• Love collaborating with a tight-knit team.

Taskrabbit is a marketplace platform that conveniently connects people with Taskers to handle everyday home to-do’s, such as furniture assembly, handyman work, moving help, and much more. Acquired by IKEA Group - the world’s largest furniture retailer - in 2017

At Taskrabbit, we want to make your neighborhood a little more familiar. Whether it’s a handyman (or woman!), a housecleaner, moving help or delivery person, we’re imagining a world where everyone will have a go-to team to make everyday life easier. As a company we celebrate innovation, inclusion and hard work. 

As a pioneer of the sharing economy, Taskrabbit was founded on the premise of neighbors helping neighbors. Since then, our network has grown to eight countries and 75+ cities, yet our core mission of creating a better everyday life for everyday people has remained the same.

Together with IKEA, we’re creating more opportunities for people to earn a consistent, meaningful income on their own terms by building lasting relationships with clients in communities around the world.

We are a group of mission-minded people. Our culture is collaborative, pragmatic, and fast-paced. We’re looking for talented, entrepreneurially-minded and data-driven people who also have a passion for helping people do what they love - and have a ton of fun while they’re at it.

• Taskrabbit is a remote first company. We recognize that talented people live all over the world.
• Collaboration hub offices in San Francisco, Austin and London
• The People. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams -- people you can be proud to work with!
• Senior Leadership Team 75% women
• Director Level 86% Diverse 
• The Values. 
• Care Deeply. We take time to be present and partner with our team and communities. 
• Level Up. We navigate through ambiguity and go the extra mile.
• Be A Better Neighbor. We build a diverse and sustainable community and encourage all voices.
• Lead The Future Together. We value entrepreneurship and are inspire by action.
  
• The diverse culture. We believe that we make better decisions when our workforce reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate. Women make up more than half of our team and leadership, and we strive to recruit and retain employees from all over the world.
  
• The perks: Taskrabbit offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision 100% covered for employees, 401k plan with company matching,  generous and flexible vacation and holiday time off, commuter benefits, learning and development opportunities, career development trainings, monthly Taskrabbit product stipends, IKEA discounts, weekly meditations, and a dog-friendly office

Taskrabbit is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. Taskrabbit is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. 

Taskrabbit will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.