Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer (U.S. Engineering)

About Cherry

Founded in 2019, Cherry is a fast-growing FinTech offering the simplest, fastest, and most inclusive BNPL solution for medical practices-including dental, medical aesthetics, and veterinary etc. We help practices treat more patients by making care financially accessible. Cherry is led by Stanford entrepreneurs with a previous successful exit and backed by top investors, including Kleiner Perkins and DCM.

About the Role

With strong product-market fit and rapid adoption across partner practices, we're accelerating the growth of our U.S. engineering team. You'll join at a meaningful inflection point with the ability to influence architecture, product direction and engineering culture as we reshape how patients pay for care.

We're looking for experienced ownership-minded engineers to own major system designs across multiple products as we scale our platform, and support our expansion into more practices and healthcare verticals.

This is an opportunity to build from the ground up, operate at a true inflection point, and grow into a future leader at Cherry.

What You'll Do

• Build end-to-end software that brings Cherry into more practices and launch new products beyond BNPL.
• Make architectural decisions that shape Cherry's platform across frontend, backend, integrations, and infrastructure
• Define and implement observability, monitoring, and metrics systems that make our products safer, faster and more reliable for practices and patients.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, and operations to rapidly deliver high-impact features and experiment toward measurable outcomes.

What You Need

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, ideally in product-focused environments.
• Proven experience shipping reliable, high-quality applications using modern frameworks, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Fullstack experience, a generalist mindset and familiarity with infrastructure, distributed systems concepts, and observability practices.
• Thrives in ambiguity and fast-paced growth while helping shape Cherry's engineering culture.
• Ability to collaborate across timezones, maintaining regular early-morning collaboration windows with teammates in Europe during the early stages of team formation.

Nice-to-Haves

• Early-stage startup experience as an early engineer or technical founder.
• Familiarity with our stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Kotlin, Postgres, Fivetran, Airflow, dbt, Snowflake, Temporal.
• Experience integrating with practice-facing, sales, or operations tooling (CRMs, workflow automation tools, dashboards, merchant platforms).

Benefits (for U.S.- based full-time employees)

• Competitive Base Salary + Bonus
• Generous equity grant
• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• Fully remote company
• Flexible PTO

Cherry provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.