Senior Software Engineer, Payments 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 engineering role centered on building and owning payments infrastructure, including integrations with multiple payment service providers and custom payments workflows. The work spans system design, cross-team collaboration on the billing and revenue lifecycle, and applying AI tooling within a fintech product. The role suits an experienced engineer with a payments specialization who is comfortable leading complex projects in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
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 730 people in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 380–950
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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 requires experience building payments systems with 'at least a couple of Payment Processors' as a hard gate; Stripe and Plaid are named as the current stack under 'Tech & Tools' rather than in a formal requirements section. Stripe is treated as required given the payments specialization is the core of the role; Plaid is marked preferred as it appears only in the stack narrative.
Next.js, Nest.js, TypeScript, and React are listed under 'Tech & Tools' (stack narrative), not a formal requirements section. However, the posting states 'day to day, you'll be in' these technologies, making them the primary working environment; they are treated as required accordingly.
AWS and Vercel are also listed under 'Tech & Tools'. AWS is treated as required given the scale and infrastructure context; Vercel is marked preferred as a secondary deployment platform.
Datadog and Sentry appear only in the stack narrative and are marked preferred.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
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