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Software Engineer

Confidential Client•Financial Services
Entry LevelFull-timeOn-SiteN/A
Chicago, Illinois
2 Days Ago

Confidential Client is seeking a Software Engineer to design and build scalable, reliable payment and reporting tools that enhance customer experience. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop new product features, maintain high-quality code, and support engineering best practices in a fast-paced fintech environment.

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About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Financial Services.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.


What You’ll Do

Confidential Client (Financial Services) is hiring a Software Engineer to build reliable, scalable payments and reporting features used by customers daily. You will partner with product, design, and other engineers to deliver high-quality software that improves merchant and partner workflows.

  • Develop features and enhancements across payments, dashboards, and customer portals
  • Participate in the full software development lifecycle: requirements, design, implementation, testing, and launch
  • Write clean, maintainable TypeScript/Node code and follow engineering best practices
  • Work with product and design to ensure solutions match customer needs
  • Troubleshoot production issues and help improve system reliability
  • Contribute to code reviews, CI/CD pipelines, and shared engineering standards

Qualifications

  • 1+ year of professional software engineering experience (customer-facing products preferred)
  • Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js
  • Familiarity with Go, Rust, or Python is a plus
  • Comfortable with modern development workflows: code review, CI/CD, testing
  • Strong teamwork and communication skills; proactive and eager to learn
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive base salary: $130,000 - $150,000 USD (or local equivalent)
  • Meaningful equity in a growing fintech
  • Health and wellness benefits, 401(k) savings plan, and open time off
  • Hands-on opportunity to impact product features from day one and collaborate with experienced leadership

About Our Client

Confidential Client is a Financial Services fintech building next-generation payment infrastructure — including instant settlement, fraud and chargeback protection, global pay-ins, multi-currency FX, and unified payouts. The team serves marketplaces, fintechs, remittance providers, gaming platforms, and e‑commerce merchants worldwide and is scaling rapidly to meet growing transaction volume.


Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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