Senior Software Engineer, Payments & Monetization
TLDR
Build payment systems and infrastructures impacting transaction revenue with a focus on iterative development in a fast-moving environment.
About Mighty Networks
Mighty Networks is a pioneering community platform that’s delivered $500M in community earnings to our customers in the past year. Tens of thousands of creators, including Tony Robbins, Marie Forleo, and Dr. Mark Hyman choose Mighty to bring people together with private or paid communities, courses, and events, so that they can generate real outcomes for their members.
Between beautiful, award-winning native mobile apps, a breakthrough formula for community building we call Community Design™, and 84% member-led engagement, Mighty Networks stands apart.
The Role
We’re looking for a full-stack engineer who thrives on fast iteration, real-world impact, and collaborative problem-solving. This role is focused on payments and monetization, building the systems behind checkout, subscriptions, plans, and the infrastructure that drives transaction revenue across the platform.
You’ll work across the stack, from backend systems that power billing and subscriptions to frontend experiences that drive conversion. The work you ship will directly impact Gross Transaction Volume.
You’ll be part of a small, high-impact team that values speed, ownership, and getting real products into the hands of users quickly. We move fast, use AI to accelerate our workflow, and ship to production continuously.
Responsibilities
- Own full features across payments and monetization, from definition through deployment
- Build and improve systems for checkout, subscriptions, billing, and plan management
- Work across backend and frontend to deliver a seamless purchasing experience
- Integrate and evolve third-party payment providers so they feel native and reliable
- Prototype quickly and learn through iteration
- Debug and test your own code to ship safely and quickly
- Use AI tools to improve development speed and explore new approaches
- Collaborate with product and design to improve conversion and revenue
- Drive simplicity, clarity, and speed in all your builds
- Participate in incident response and help resolve production issues tied to payment systems
Qualifications
- Five or more years of full-stack development experience, ideally with Ruby on Rails
- Strong experience across backend systems and modern frontend frameworks such as React
- Experience building or working with payments, subscriptions, or billing systems
- Familiarity with third-party payment providers such as Stripe or similar platforms
- Experience designing and developing REST APIs
- Strong understanding of real-world payments flows, including checkout, subscriptions, retries, failures, and edge cases
- Experience working with databases such as PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows
- Clear communicator who works well across teams
- Bias toward action and shipping
- Curiosity and a strong desire to learn and improve
- Bonus: Experience with international payments and currencies
- Bonus: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
How You Operate
- You move fast and focus on getting real work into production
- You take ownership and follow things through
- You learn by building and iterating
- You care about the details that impact user experience and revenue
- You stay unblocked and help others do the same
- You are comfortable working in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities
- You share ideas and contribute to team decisions
- You prefer shipping and learning over overthinking
Location
Remote. We are especially interested in candidates based internationally who bring a global perspective.
Mighty Networks is a powerful community platform designed for individuals and brands to create engaging online spaces, offering features for building communities, courses, memberships, and events. What sets us apart is our unique technology that fosters meaningful connections among members, helping Hosts generate significant revenue and create thriving networks.