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About the Role

inKind is building financial infrastructure connecting restaurants, diners, and capital through a platform powering real-time financial transactions and operational workflows. This hands-on role involves designing and building systems for mission-critical financial workflows, with an AI-first mindset to accelerate development and unlock new product capabilities. The role requires collaboration with product, business, and engineering teams to impact restaurants and partners relying on inKind for financial operations.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable distributed systems for financial transactions and real-time events.
Architect services to handle real-world scale, failure scenarios, and performance constraints.
Ensure strong data integrity and consistency across distributed workflows.
Build secure infrastructure protecting sensitive financial data.
Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools for development acceleration and workflow improvement.
Contribute to AI-enabled product features and platform automation.
Evolve team integration of modern developer tools and AI-assisted engineering practices.
Design systems with observability, monitoring, and failure recovery.
Debug complex production issues across distributed services.
Improve reliability and performance of mission-critical systems.
Participate in on-call rotations to maintain platform stability.
Partner with product and business teams to translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions.
Lead architectural decisions through hands-on implementation.
Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the team.

Requirements

8+ years of experience building and operating production systems.
Strong distributed systems design experience.
Expertise in at least one major web framework (Rails, Django, Express, Fastify, etc.).
Strong database knowledge including indexing, query optimization, and transactional integrity.
Experience designing highly available production systems.
Familiarity with authentication, authorization, and secure API design.
Experience scaling systems during periods of rapid growth.
Background in payments, financial transactions, or regulated systems.
Experience implementing distributed patterns such as retries, circuit breakers, and event-driven workflows.
Experience working with or evolving large Rails applications.
Experience integrating AI tools into engineering workflows or building AI-powered product features.

Skills

Ownership and experimentation with new ideas.
Shipping impactful solutions.
Understanding complex system interactions.
Designing resilient architectures.
Excitement for modern development practices and AI in software building.
Pragmatic problem-solving (refactoring, optimizing, shipping).
Clear communication.
Collaboration with engineering, product, and business partners.

Location

Austin

Work Type

In-person

Experience Level

8+ years of experience

Salary/Compensations

$160,000 – $185,000, DOE

Benefits

Generous PTO and company holiday policy.
Company-paid Short Term Disability.
100% employer-covered health and dental insurance for direct employees (set plan).
Higher tier healthcare coverage available at employee's additional cost.
Dependent coverage for health and dental at employee's cost.
Vision plan available at employee's additional cost.
Child Care Benefits.
Generous parental leave.
Dog-friendly workspace in a secure building with downtown Austin views.
Daily lunches and snacks for in-office team members.

About the Company

inKind connects diners with exceptional restaurants nationwide.
Partners with thousands of restaurants and has millions of users.
Enables guests to earn 20% back on dining through the inKind app.
Supports celebrated restaurant groups and neighborhood favorites.
Helps diners explore restaurants while supporting chefs.
Rooted in hospitality and a win-win philosophy.
Aims to help great restaurants thrive and inspire guests to dine out more often.
Creates value for both diners and restaurants, strengthening the restaurant community.

Equal Opportunity

inKind is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Diversity is vital to providing the best client recommendations.
Committed to fostering a varied and inclusive work environment.
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