Fullstack Engineer (Payments)

With over $3 billion in bookings of experiences, the Peek.com platform combines powerful business software with an award-winning marketplace for consumers to book fun things to do like wine tours, watersports, skydiving, art classes, and more. 

The Peek Pro software suite provides world-class online booking, point-of-sale, and hundreds of automation tools such as inventory management, dynamic pricing, waivers, and marketing analytics. Thousands of operators like the Museum of Ice Cream, Artechouse, and Jam NOLA have grown their businesses and automated their operations with our technology.

Peek follows a “remote-first” philosophy, with our team of over 250 Peeksters distributed across exciting locales such as San Francisco, New York, Austin, Nashville, Salt Lake City, Santiago, Medellin, and beyond.  Having secured funding exceeding $100 million from esteemed backers like Westcap and Goldman Sachs, we continue our mission to connect the world through experiences.

PS: In 2021, Peek was not only recognized with a coveted position on Forbes America's Best Startups Employer list but also celebrated an honor from Newsweek with their Future of Travel award 🚀. And the accolades don't stop there! We're ecstatic to announce our #14 ranking on the a16z Marketplace 100 for 2023! 🎉

Peek’s engineering team takes pride in balancing the fast pace of a startup with the needs of a mature B2B SaaS business. We have a modern tech stack, built with Elixir, Ruby, Ember.js, and Swift. We love GraphQL and Kubernetes and deploy on AWS and GCP.  

Are you passionate about developing reliable software, solving interesting problems and delighting customers? Want to work on interesting technical problems around booking management and payments? We are looking for a senior engineer to join our Payments team!  In this role you will have the opportunity to take on ownership, learn new technologies and influence the technical direction of the Peek platform.

Examples of projects built by engineers at Peek:

• Payment processing

• Supplier payments

• Real-time availability

• Fraud detection

• Integrations with Google, Expedia, TripAdvisor and Groupon

• Standardized activity booking API for the travel industry

See details about Peek’s tech stack at Peek Tech Stack.

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with Product Management and Design to build top notch user experiences while focusing on code quality and maintaining codebase and system health.

• Act as a mentor to fellow software engineers, through code reviews, design document critiques, and brainstorms throughout the software development process.

• Taking ownership of features built from development through release to production.

• Advocating for a consistent and delightful customer experience.

• Deliver production-quality code with adequate automated test coverage.

• Strong interpersonal communication skills. Collaborate to solve problems. We value team success over individual achievement. We love working with people who can ask hard questions, offer unusual solutions, and are willing to compromise when solving challenging problems on a deadline.

• Well organized and self motivated. Be able to adapt to this fast paced environment, where teams are growing, and priorities shift on a quarterly basis as we move into new markets.

• Advocate for self care while managing a high workload. We want you to show up as your best self, and to speak up for what you need to stay healthy and engaged.

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer.

• Experience with a payments or marketplace platform. At least one year as a developer on a payments related system.

• Domain knowledge on marketplaces and payment systems

• Strong communication skills.

• Solid coding practices including peer code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, TDD.

• Well organized and self-motivated. 

• Advocate for self-care while managing a high workload.

Nice to haves

• Experience with GraphQL.

• Experience with mobile technologies. 

• Experience using Elixir/Ruby or functional languages (Scala / Closure)

• Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ

• Experience with relational and/or non-relational databases

Perks & Benefits

Peek invests in our employee’s health and well-being. We’ve built our benefits package around our Peekster’s needs including full health care, dental, and vision plans, paid parental leave, company recharge at the end of the year, and competitive compensation packages that include significant equity upside that allows you to share in Peek’s long-term success.

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Peek Travel Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, and disability, or other legally protected status. If you are unable to apply because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at talent@peek.com.  We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.