Senior Software Engineer, Merchant Onboarding at Tabs
New York, NY
$175,000–$240,000
Jul 13, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior software engineering role on a Merchant Onboarding team, responsible for building and owning the end-to-end merchant journey — from onboarding and configuration through to internal tooling. Day-to-day work spans backend services, APIs, and product interfaces used by finance teams, using a stack that includes TypeScript, Node.js, React, Postgres, and Redis. The role suits engineers comfortable with broad ownership, system design, and close collaboration with Product and Design.
Senior level · 5+ years · New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,150 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,100–5,400
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,499 (middle half $133,523–$210,499).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting lists TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Temporal under 'The Stack' with an explicit disclaimer that the team cares more about learning speed than exact stack experience — these are treated as preferred context rather than hard gates.
React (or Vue/similar) and relational databases (PostgreSQL or equivalent) appear in the formal 'Experience' requirements section and are treated as hard gates.
API experience is listed in the 'Experience' section; captured as REST since the role centers on backend services and APIs.
The 5–8 year range is stated in the 'Experience' section; the overall years minimum is set to 5 (the lower bound). The posting also explicitly de-emphasizes exact years of experience in the narrative, which is a mild tension.
No compensation figures are disclosed.
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