Sezzle invites you to join our Talent Community!

At Sezzle, we are always seeking talented, motivated people to join our company. Our Buy Now Pay Later product is driven by data - and our Merchant Success team is a critical part of how we do what we do. If you are ready to join a company that moves QUICKLY and where you can truly make an impact - you've found the place. You Matter Here!

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Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company whose long-standing mission is to financially empower the next generation. Only one in three millennials own a credit card, and the vast majority of millennials possess a subprime credit score or no score at all. To address these problems, Sezzle has built a payment platform that increases purchasing power for consumers by offering interest-free installment plans at online stores. This increase in purchasing power for consumers leads to increased sales and basket sizes for the numerous eCommerce merchants that currently work with Sezzle.

As the first and only B-Corp in the payments space, Sezzle's goal is to help everyone pursue financial freedom, and to invest in social good and ethical initiatives that shape a better world.

At Sezzle, we're committed to putting purpose alongside profitability. We work hard to maintain rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency to build a better world. The employees at Sezzle lean into significant societal and cultural shifts, ensuring internal and external focus on positive impacts that benefit our community.

About the Role:

Sezzle is seeking an experienced payment engineering professional to lead our payments engineering team. The most qualified candidate will have experience providing analysis needed for the optimization of payments strategies as well as the development of new strategies for payment collections while maintaining exceptional consumer experience in e-commerce and in-store POS environment. The leader will work closely with credit risk, product, data, and engineering teams to identify ways to enhance our payments platform capabilities in the most consumer-friendly way possible.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Build and manage a team of software engineers as the team's capacity requirements grow
• Complete ownership of all payment and settlement systems and collection strategies including card, ACH, and EFT processing, financial accounting, and card issuing systems
• Prepare specifications and determine operational feasibility
• Write well-designed, testable, and efficient code
• Organize, document, and maintain software functionality
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system
• Evaluate and deploy software tools, processes, and metrics
• Provide support and consulting on software systems usage
• Ensure compliance with project plans and industry standards

Minimum Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience working in a Computer Software Engineer or Software Developer position
• 4+ years of experience leading a team of full-stack developers, 2+ years experience leading engineering managers
• 2+ years working with payments systems including card networks and ACH, and other EFT processing, and/or card issuing platforms
• BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent relevant experience

Preferred Knowledge and Skills:

• Significant experience in developing web applications at an enterprise scale
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Databases, SQL, and distributed data platforms
• Financial and accounting systems knowledge
• Good experience in designing interactive applications with test-driven development
• Experience with Go, React, AWS, React Native, Python
• Experience documenting requirements and specifications
• Close familiarity with software engineering tools, software development methodology, and release processes

• Competitive salary and RSUs
• Generous paid time off, sick time and volunteer hours
• Life, STD/LTD, medical, dental and vision insurance
• Highly discounted LifeTime gym membership
• Work From Home stipend
• 401k with impressive employer match
• Remote first work

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators; we are skilled musicians, yogis, cyclists, chefs, golfers, dog-lovers, and rock-climbers. We believe in surrounding ourselves with not only the best and the brightest individuals, but those that are unique and purpose-driven in all that they do. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire.

Sezzle provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, familial status, veteran or military status, status regarding public assistance, membership or activity in a local commission, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.