About the job
Self Financial is an innovative, venture-backed FinTech company dedicated to enhancing economic inclusion and fostering financial resilience. Our mission is to empower individuals to build credit and save effectively.
We seek passionate individuals who are eager to confront challenges, devise solutions, and improve the financial landscape for the communities we serve.
Our team is committed to redefining the credit industry by providing accessible tools that enable people to take charge of their credit. Achieving our mission necessitates deep collaboration across teams to ensure that our products reach those who will benefit most, particularly the over 100 million Americans with little or no credit.
We value diversity and are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively seek to recruit, develop, and retain exceptional talent from a diverse candidate pool.
About the Role
We are on the lookout for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to enhance our Payments (PayPort) platform, which underpins vital business operations and revenue-generating processes. This position is crucial for ensuring the reliability, scalability, and continuous development of payment systems and associated services.
As a senior member of our team, you will play a key role in both routine operations and strategic initiatives, including payment integrations and financial reporting capabilities. You will collaborate cross-functionally with product, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality, resilient solutions.
What You’ll Do:
Payment Platform Ownership
- Support and maintain the PayPort payment platform and its services
- Ensure system uptime, reliability, and performance of critical payment workflows
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues affecting payment systems
Development & Delivery
- Design, develop, and improve payment processing capabilities and integrations
- Create and support bank and bureau reporting functionality
- Contribute to scalable, secure, and high-performance software solutions
- Engage in all phases of the software development lifecycle to ensure successful delivery of projects.

