Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role stands out within SaaS because it sits in the infrastructure layer of modern fintech, where platforms enable other software companies to embed payments. Payfac as a service is a specialised category with real platform complexity, combining API design, compliance-adjacent constraints, and high reliability expectations typical of monetised SaaS products.
From a SaaS career perspective, the remit signals end-to-end ownership across service development, deployment, observability, and continuous improvement. Work that includes telemetry, fault tolerance, and production optimisation tends to translate well across SaaS companies operating at scale, particularly those running multi-tenant systems and revenue-critical workflows. The stated stack also offers broadly portable experience across common SaaS architectures, from TypeScript services to relational data stores.
The role is best suited to an experienced engineer who prefers broad scope over narrow feature delivery and is comfortable partnering closely with engineering leadership. It fits someone who values remote collaboration, wants to influence engineering practices like testing and pairing, and enjoys building systems where reliability and operational discipline are core to the product.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
We are:
- Tilled's rapidly growing Payfac-as-a-Service platform is empowering software companies to seamlessly embed payment processing while supporting some of the biggest names in the payments space. As traditional payment entities like ISOs, processors, and acquirers see their legacy models becoming obsolete, ISVs are disrupting the market through software-led payments, and Tilled is at the forefront of this transformation.
You are:
- Authorized to work in the United States and a resident in a United States time zone
- Comfortable with remote work
Position Summary: We are looking to add a senior engineer to our team. You’ll work directly with our Head of Engineering and have broad end-to-end responsibilities. We are looking for a strong software engineer and you will have opportunities to contribute across the entire stack. Your work will have a tremendous impact on every aspect of Tilled’s business success.
A day in the life as a Software Engineer may include:
- Create, develop, deploy, and maintain Tilled services
- Design and implement highly reliable, fault tolerant systems
- Collect and visualize detailed telemetry data to continuously improve systems
- Advance and adhere to high-quality coding practices – unit testing, pair programming
- End-to-end responsibility – continuously monitor and improve the services you create
- Promote an engineering team culture that is always learning, motivated and collaborative
- Work with a variety of technologies – Typescript, Angular, NodeJS, Postgres
Typical Hours for this Position: You must be flexible to work between the hours of 8 am to 5 pm, Monday-Friday.
What You Have:
- 6+ years of software development experience
- 6+ years of web application framework experience such as NodeJS
- 6+ years of database related experience such as Postgres
- You function with confidence in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- You work seamlessly in a remote dispersed team environment
- You want to contribute to an engineering team culture that is always learning, motivated and collaborative
What You May Have:
- Experience with Angular or Typescript preferred
- Experience in a start-up preferred
- Experience with AWS preferred
- Experience implementing payment systems – Stripe, Braintree preferred
- Experience optimizing production systems for performance, quality and reliability preferred
What We Have:
- Office space in Boulder, CO
- Remote work environment
- Resources to support remote work
- Generous compensation and benefits
- Transparency that trickles down from the C-Level
- Experts in the payments field that can get you up to speed with PayFac-as-a-Service
Tilled Core Values:
- Lead With Innovation - Continuously improve our systems and challenge yourself
- Get The Right Sh*t Done - Focus on the right questions and work that will continue to grow Tilled
- Win-Win - Look for opportunities to help our partners that also helps our internal teams
- Be Brave - Take chances, trust yourself and abilities
Tilled is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
