Senior Software Engineer, Payments

HackerOne is the global leader in human-powered security, harnessing the creativity of the world’s largest community of security researchers with cutting-edge AI to protect your digital assets. The HackerOne Platform combines the expertise of our elite community and the most up-to-date vulnerability database to pinpoint critical security flaws across your attack surface. Our integrated solutions, including bug bounty, pentesting, code security audits, spot checks, and AI red teaming, ensure continuous vulnerability discovery and management throughout the software development lifecycle. Trusted by industry leaders such as Coinbase, General Motors, GitHub, Goldman Sachs, Hyatt, PayPal, and the U.S. Department of Defense, HackerOne was named a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company in 2023 and a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals in 2024.

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Senior Software Engineer

Remote Location : Austin, TX and Washington DC

Position Summary

This software engineering position will reside on a Payments Engineering Team. The Payments Engineering Team’s primary mission is to enable HackerOne to move money between customers and hackers in a compliant, flexible, and safe manner. This role primarily focuses on the back-end; having some front-end experience would be helpful for the team.

In the near future, the team will expand their domain ownership and start maintaining and developing other platform components of the HackerOne platform. You'll be expected to work on backend-heavy payment processing code and touch the frontend occasionally. Ideally, you'll have a strong foundation in either, but want to learn the other as well.

At HackerOne, we embrace a Flexible Work approach, enabling our team members to work remotely while maintaining productivity and collaboration. We are seeking candidates located in Austin Tx or Washington DC , and the surrounding metropolitan areas, to facilitate occasional in-person interactions as needed. While the position is primarily remote, there will be periodic in-person requirements to support team collaboration and foster stronger connections. This approach ensures flexibility while providing opportunities to build meaningful in-person relationships that strengthen our team and company culture.

What You Will Do

Your day will start with a warm welcome online and get your tools to start!

Your first 30 days will be focusing on getting to know our HackerOnies. You will join your new squad and be onboarded to engineering - get to learn the technology stack (Ruby on Rails + GraphQL + ReactJS + many more).

Within 60 days, you will have committed a bunch of code to our repositories and will start developing a knack for being a fast and effective software engineer on our codebase.

Within 90 days, you will start getting ready to lead your first project. You will have branched out and talked to Finance, Verification & Risk Monitoring, Customer Support, and various other functions, and developed a good sense of cross-functional collaboration and communication.

Beyond 90 days, you will be a full-fledged software engineer. By that time, you will be able to understand the business value of our products and features and the needs of our customers, and you can translate feature requests into simple but robust engineering (or non-engineering) solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years of experience in full-stack software engineering, especially within a SAAS environment.

Experience developing applications with Ruby on Rails and ReactJS.

Successful track record of shipping projects quickly with multiple dependencies across technical and non-technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

Expertise or interest in generative AI, ElasticSearch / OpenSearch.

Preference experience in payment systems such as bank transfers, PayPal, Stripe, and Bitcoin.

Compensation Bands : Tier Guide

Tier A : 170k-195k

Tier B : 147k-184k

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Job Benefits :

Health (medical, vision, dental), life, and disability insurance

Equity stock options

Retirement plans

Paid public holidays and unlimited PTO

Paid maternity and parental leave

Leaves of absence (including caregiver leave and leave under CO's Healthy Families and Workplaces Act)

Employee Assistance Program

Flexible Work Stipend

• Eligibility may differ by country

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