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# owner-minded Software Engineer

- **Company:** Perpay, Inc.
- **Location:** Philadelphia, PA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Software Debugging, Web Development, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), TypeScript, Web Applications, ReactJS, Flask (Web Framework), Kubernetes, React Redux, Docker
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/8ef8f008-888c-4148-a264-2661da15bf2c

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience building web applications at scale in at least one modern language / framework (Python/Django, React/Typescript, Rails, etc.)
 * 2+ years of experience leading technical teams and large, complex projects
 * Experience working on consumer-facing products and demonstrating empathy for end-users
 * Excellent at unblocking yourself and those around you, and an ability to design, analyze, and debug distributed systems and services.
 * Significant experience with operating large scale services with AWS, Docker, and/or Kubernetes
 * Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain highly technical subject matter to a nontechnical audience

## Description

We're searching for an experienced and owner-minded Software Engineer to join Perpay and contribute to our culture of technical excellence. You will lead large-scale projects from start-to-finish, working across multiple teams (analytics, commerce, product, design, operations) while providing guidance to junior-level engineers. As we're a growing engineering team, you'll also have the opportunity to make an impact on our tech and our team. Given our people-first approach, your elevated level of contribution will strengthen our culture of inclusion, mentorship, and continuous learning.

As a leader of Perpay's engineering team, you'll collaborate with stakeholders ranging from entry-level contributors to senior-level executives. This opportunity is both unique and pivotal, as it offers the chance to provide leadership to a rapidly growing team. Our tech stack: Typescript, Javascript, React, Redux, Python, Django, Flask, Kubernetes, AWS, Docker and more

Our greatest strength is our people and we'd love for you to be one of them!

We highly value product-mindset, experience building production web apps for real users, and ability to coach and support junior engineers. An ownership mentality is a must, along with empathy and low ego. We're building to win, and are eager to find more team members to help us get there.

You Will:

 * Be a leader our team looks to as a model of execution, accountability, and technical expertise
 * Lead the implementation of large scale features for our customers and our internal finance, operations, and risk teams
 * Develop technical requirements alongside our Product team
 * Solve problems that span multiple interconnected systems with distributed architectures and scaling systems
 * Execute on the full lifecycle of new features with fellow engineers
 * Continue to improve how we build, test, and deliver software


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