Software Engineer - Payments
Recruiting From Scratch · Mountain View, CA
$160,000–$225,000from the description
Jun 29, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A seed-stage AI software company is looking for a backend engineer to serve as its primary architect for payments, billing, and pricing infrastructure. Day-to-day work involves building integrations with payment providers, designing event-driven systems for usage metering and reconciliation, and owning the full lifecycle of subscription and invoicing platforms. The role suits someone with several years of hands-on production experience in payments or billing systems, ideally from a high-growth startup environment.
Mid level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 29,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 17,400–43,500
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 $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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 (9)
The caller has overridden the physical location (Mountain View, CA / hybrid) and declared this a fully-remote, national role — metro and state fields are left blank accordingly.
The job title carries no seniority level word. The experience band of 3–6+ years with 2–3 years in payments, combined with end-to-end ownership of a production billing platform, most closely maps to Mid-level on the career ladder (independent delivery, owns a component), though the upper end of the range could support Senior. The lower bound of 3 years was used for the overall years minimum.
Python, TypeScript, and Django are grouped together in the Technical Requirements section under a single bullet ending in 'preferred', making the entire set preferred rather than hard-gated. They are listed as separate preferred skills to preserve granularity.
Stripe API integration is stated with firm language ('Hands-on experience integrating Stripe APIs in production') under Technical Requirements and is treated as a hard gate.
Shopify appears under Technical Requirements ('Experience working with Shopify APIs or similar commerce platforms') but the 'or similar' qualifier and its placement alongside a broad alternative make it preferred rather than a firm gate on Shopify specifically.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as 'preferred' and the posting explicitly states academic pedigree becomes less important with experience — the degree requirement is set to None.
LLMs appear only in the company description narrative ('large language models') as context for the platform, not as a candidate requirement — marked preferred.
The posting is placed by a recruiting/staffing firm (Recruiting from Scratch); the actual employer is an unnamed seed-stage AI/FinTech startup in Mountain View, CA.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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