Tech Lead, Payment Solutions Specialist

7 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States Owl Ventures Full time

About Quizlet:

We're a global learning platform driven by curiosity and innovation. Our mission is to make learning fun and accessible for everyone.

With over $1 billion in value, we've secured funding from top investors like Icon Ventures, Union Square Ventures, General Atlantic, Costanoa Ventures, Owl Ventures, and Altos Ventures.

To serve our diverse community of learners, our teams tackle complex technical challenges and design solutions for various cultures and languages.

About the Team:

The Payments team plays a crucial role in ensuring seamless financial transactions, subscription lifecycles, and payment flows for users worldwide.

This is a high-impact area with numerous opportunities to innovate, optimize, and expand the scope of payments at Quizlet.

About the Role:

As a Tech Lead on the Payments team, you'll play a key role in building and optimizing Quizlet's payments infrastructure. You'll work across backend systems that handle payments and subscriptions at scale and contribute to front-end projects that enhance user payment flows and subscription management.

This hybrid role is based out of our San Francisco office hub.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable backend services for payments and subscriptions
  • Contribute to Quizlet's payments strategy by identifying improvements to support system scalability and efficiency
  • Develop user-facing components and UI features for seamless payment and subscription experiences using modern front-end technologies like React
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth integration and performance in all payment flows
  • Build reusable UI components and abstractions to improve development speed and consistency in payment-related interfaces
  • Ensure system reliability and uptime through thoughtful design, code quality, and incident response when necessary
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to junior engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and contributions to the team
  • Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to support system health and operational excellence
  • Stay current with industry trends in payments technology, applying new techniques and tools to enhance system efficiency and reduce costs where possible

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in backend development with a focus on building reliable and scalable distributed systems
  • Familiarity with modern front-end technologies (e.g., React, NextJS) and ability to contribute to building and maintaining user-facing components
  • Experience with modern backend frameworks (e.g., Go, Node.js, Python) and relational databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL)
  • Strong understanding of building and scaling APIs, with some experience in the payments or subscription space being a plus
  • Solid system architecture and design skills, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance optimization
  • Proven ability to contribute to technical projects from design through deployment, including collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Strong interest in solving complex engineering challenges, particularly in payments, financial systems, and transactional workflows

Bonus Points:

  • Experience working with global payment providers and handling multi-currency transactions
  • Exposure to both backend and frontend development, with an interest in integrating the two seamlessly
  • Familiarity with tax engines, financial reconciliation processes, or billing systems
  • Basic DevOps knowledge, including some experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP) and containerization tools like Kubernetes
  • Experience working in a subscription-based or SaaS company
  • Passion for learning and growing within the fintech/payments space, with an eagerness to explore new technologies and improve existing systems

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a starting base salary of $160,000 - $185,000, depending on location and experience, as well as company stock options
  • Collaborate with your manager and team to create a healthy work-life balance
  • 20 vacation days (and we expect you to take them)
  • Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee and 75% dependent PPO, HMO, VSP Choice)
  • Employer-sponsored 401k plan with company match
  • Access to LinkedIn Learning and other resources to support professional growth
  • Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, Wellness benefits
  • 40 hours of annual paid time off to participate in volunteer programs of your choice

Diversity & Inclusion:

We strive to create an inclusive work environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and encourage women, people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, individuals with disabilities, and veterans to apply. Come join us



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