Paystand

Paystand is a hungry, fast-growing, Series-C startup with three locations! Nestled in the beautiful Santa Cruz mountains, just south of Silicon Valley is where we started. We have our offices in amazing and historic Guadalajara Mexico and Salt Lake City with the dramatic backdrops of the mountains of Utah. 

Our mission is to unlock capital efficiency for enterprise businesses through our transformative “Payments as a Service” platform. Our smart billing and payment network uses revolutionary internet, blockchain, and FinTech services to digitize receivables, automate processing, reduce time-to-cash, lower transaction costs, and produce new revenue for our clients. Paystand is venture-backed, having been consistently recognized as one of the top innovators in FinTech, and fastest-growing companies in the world.

Responsibilities

• Architecture and implementation of user-facing parts of PayStand’s Systems
• Build reusable libraries and frameworks that support complex web applications
• Collaborate with product owners, designers, other engineers, and customer success to build the best user experience

Qualifications

• Can-do attitude with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in building web, mobile-web, or hybrid mobile applications with increasing levels of responsibility and independence.
• Solid Computer Science and Software Engineering background
• Experience building highly scalable RESTful web services and APIs
• Experience with Node.js & Express.js
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (ES5 and higher)
• Experience with front-end frameworks such as Angular.js (1-4), React, Vue.js, etc.
• Experience with preprocessor stylesheet languages such as Sass, & Less
• Opinionated, but willing to compromise and take direction

Bonus

• HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 expert
• Knowledge of other web libraries and frameworks such as Polymer, React, etc.
• Understanding of front-end performance issues and optimization strategies (i.e. Caching, CDNs, concatenation and minification, sprites, SVGs, fonts, etc.)
• Understanding of what constitutes good UI and UX practices and the ability to apply them
• Experience with message queueing technologies such as RabbitMQ, SQS, Kafka
• Experience with event-driven service architectures
• Experience with other programming languages than JavaScript
• Experience with front-end build environments (Grunt, Gulp, etc.)
• Experience with object-oriented and functional programming paradigms
• Active interest in Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other digital currencies & the blockchain
• Ownership of one or more digital currencies
• Familiarity with the workings of one or more cryptocurrencies
• Programmed smart contracts
• Deployed 1 or more Bitcoin, Ethereum, or other crypto network nodes

Perks

• Salary + competitive equity in a high growth-stage startup
• Stock Options
• Health Insurance
• Flexible and Generous PTO (vacations) 
• Opportunity for advancement & growth in a rapidly expanding team
• Mentorship, learning & education programs
• Smart, motivated team that likes to have fun
• Mission-driven culture, where your work matters

We understand that no candidate is perfectly qualified for any job. Experience comes in different forms; many skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. Even more important than your resume is a clear demonstration of dedication, impact, and the ability to thrive in a fluid and collaborative environment. We want you to learn new things in this role, and we encourage you to apply if your experience is close to what we’re looking for. We also know that diversity of background and thought makes for better problem solving and more creative thinking, which is why we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. We look forward to hearing from you.

Availability - Bay area/Scotts Valley, CA. Salt Lake City area, UT. Guadalajara, MX.

(This is not a remote position)***No recruiters please***

Only English resumes will be considered.