Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
At inKind, we’re building the financial infrastructure that connects restaurants, diners, and capital in entirely new ways. Our platform powers real-time financial transactions and operational workflows for restaurants across the country. We’re looking for entrepreneurial, forward-thinking engineers who thrive in fast-moving environments and enjoy solving complex technical problems at scale. This is a hands-on role where you’ll design and build systems that support mission-critical financial workflows used daily by restaurants and partners. Our engineering team works with an AI-first mindset — leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate development, automate workflows, and unlock new product capabilities. We’re looking for engineers who are excited to experiment with emerging technologies while maintaining high standards for reliability and scalability. You’ll collaborate closely with product, business, and engineering teams to build systems that directly impact the restaurants and partners who rely on inKind for real-time financial operations.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building and operating production systems
- Strong distributed systems design experience
- Expertise in at least one major web framework (Rails, Django, Express, Fastify, etc.)
- Strong database knowledge including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity
- Experience designing highly available production systems
- Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design
Nice To Haves
- Experience scaling systems during periods of rapid growth
- Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems
- Experience implementing distributed patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and event-driven workflows
- Experience working with or evolving large Rails applications
- Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows or building AI-powered product features
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable distributed systems supporting financial transactions and real-time events
- Architect services that handle real-world scale, failure scenarios, and performance constraints
- Ensure strong data integrity and consistency across distributed workflows
- Build secure infrastructure protecting sensitive financial data
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools to accelerate development and improve engineering workflows
- Contribute to AI-enabled product features and automation across the platform
- Help evolve how our team integrates modern developer tools and AI-assisted engineering practices
- Design systems with observability, monitoring, and failure recovery in mind
- Debug complex production issues across distributed services
- Improve reliability and performance of mission-critical systems
- Participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform stability
- Partner with product and business teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions
- Lead architectural decisions through hands-on implementation
- Mentor engineers and help raise engineering standards across the team
Benefits
- Generous PTO and company holiday policy + company paid Short Term Disability
- 100% employer covered health and dental insurance for our direct employees (a set plan is covered, with higher tier healthcare coverage available at employee's additional cost; dependent coverage is at employee's cost); vision plan available at employee's additional cost
- Child Care Benefits and generous parental leave
- Dog-friendly workspace in a secure building with great views of downtown Austin
- Daily lunches and snacks for in-office team members
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
