Senior Software Engineering

Senior software engineer (full stack) — New York, NY (in-person, Soho)

$185,000 to $220,000 + meaningful equity

Trayd, in one sentence Trayd is building the operating system for commercial construction: payroll, compliance, and back office workflows that actually work in the real world.

Construction is one of the biggest industries in North America, and it still runs on a messy mix of spreadsheets, legacy payroll providers, and manual processes that break the moment things get even slightly complex. Trayd started with a simple promise: construction workers should be able to access the money they already earned faster, and subcontractors should be able to run payroll without chaos. Today, we’re building deeper infrastructure across payroll, union rules, job costing, and accounting workflows so our customers can run their businesses with confidence. We’re in the next phase of growth, with accelerating customer demand and a platform that runs real payroll every week, and we’re scaling engineering to match it. The role We’re hiring a senior software engineer to help build the core systems that power Trayd.

You’ll design, build, ship, and maintain real systems that move real money, under real compliance constraints, for customers who depend on us every week. Payroll is one of the only product categories where 99% accuracy is an F. You’ll work on a small, high-output team where decisions are made quickly, quality matters, and your work will show up in production constantly.

Own major projects end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, and release

Build full-stack features across the frontend, backend, and data layers in a production SaaS environment

Design and evolve systems for payroll, deductions, benefits, compliance, and accounting workflows where correctness matters

Model and migrate relational data in Postgres for complex real-world financial workflows

Collaborate closely with product and operations to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions

Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand how construction companies actually operate

Contribute as a senior engineer through code reviews, design discussions, and raising the quality bar across the team

Building workflows that handle union pay rules, deductions, and benefits correctly across job types and locations

Designing systems that make payroll auditable and explainable, not just “it worked somehow”

Making accounting exports and job-costing data reliable enough that controllers trust them

Improving performance and correctness in a system that processes large amounts of payroll data under deadlines

Creating tooling and guardrails that prevent edge cases from becoming customer emergencies

Payroll and compliance are high-stakes. You won’t be one engineer on a giant team shipping tiny changes. Strong customer demand, real usage, and a product that customers rely on weekly

Construction is full of complexity that most software ignores. On payroll days, the whole team runs together. 5+ years building production software on a team

• Strong TypeScript and Node.js fundamentals
• Full-stack capable (or excited to be) and comfortable working across systems
• High ownership mindset: you ship, you fix, you follow through
• NYC-based or ready to relocate quickly

React, Next.js, Prisma, tRPC, Postgres

Experience in fintech, payroll, accounting, compliance, or other high-stakes systems

If you want to ship important software fast with a team that cares about doing it right, you’ll fit here.

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