Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Austin, in-person

Build the Infrastructure Powering the Future of Restaurant Payments

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.

Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering

• 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

AI-First Engineering

• 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

Reliability & Production Operations

• 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

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• 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

Who Thrives Here

The engineers who succeed at inKind tend to be:

Builder Mindset You enjoy taking ownership, experimenting with new ideas, and shipping impactful solutions.

Systems Thinkers You understand how complex systems interact and can design resilient architectures.

Forward-Thinking Engineers You're excited about modern development practices and exploring how AI can improve the way we build software.

Pragmatic Problem Solvers You know when to refactor, when to optimize, and when to ship.

Collaborative Teammates You communicate clearly and work well with engineering, product, and business partners.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

Why Engineers Like Working Here

• Work on real-world financial infrastructure used by restaurants every day
• High ownership and autonomy in architectural decisions
• Opportunity to help shape an AI-first engineering culture
• Collaborative environment working closely with product and business teams
• Fast-moving startup environment where your work directly impacts customers

Some of Our 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

Salary

$160,000 – $185,000, DOE