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Butter PaymentsBP

Software Engineer, Backend (CA)

Butter Payments is a payments technology platform that uses machine learning to help subscription companies recover revenue lost to failed payments and reduce involuntary churn.

Butter Payments

Employee count: 51-200

Salary: 220k-280k CAD

Canada only

Software Engineer, Backend (Remote, Canada)

About Butter Payments

At Butter Payments, we’re on a mission to eliminate involuntary churn and make recurring payments seamless. Every year, billions of dollars are lost due to failed payments. Butter leverages machine learning, deep financial data partnerships, and behavioral insights to ensure the right payments go through at the right time—without friction. We're backed by world-class investors like Atomic & Norwest Venture Partners, and we're growing fast.

Summary:

In this role you’ll use your unique combination of data engineering and backend software development expertise to solve business problems. As part of the Engineering team, you’ll build data heavy applications that directly provide value to our customers, internal and external.

Who We’re Looking For:

We’re looking for someone who understands data engineering and can combine that knowledge with software engineering experience to build systems where producing and managing data is the first-class concern.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build backend applications that interact with a variety of disparate APIs and data sources.
  • Develop and grow client facing APIs that are flexible but standardize the data passed to them in a clean and consistent way.
  • Orchestrate asynchronous workflows using technologies such as Temporal.
  • Collaborate with data engineering, machine learning, and analytics teams to ensure that the data our applications are producing scales to meet needs across the company.
  • Build data models into our applications that transpose the messy data of the outside world into clean data our applications can operate on.
  • Develop and operate software in production.

What You Have:

  • 5+ years of professional experience between data engineering and software engineering roles
  • You’ve worked with Python and SQL in a previous role
  • You’ve worked with cloud based systems such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure
  • You have experience writing and operating software in production
  • Strong analytical, problem solving, communication, and debugging skills
  • Can respond iteratively and rapidly to changes in business requirements

Nice To Have:

  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
  • You have API design experience
  • Experience working in high-growth fintech or payments startups
  • Experience building systems with a State Machine architecture
  • Bonus points for Temporal or AWS Step Functions experience

Engineering Philosophies:

  • Data outlives code
  • Technology is strategic for the business
  • Simplicity over complexity
  • Embrace hard conversations

Our Tech Stack:

AWS, Python, Kubernetes (EKS), Github Actions, Terraform, CockroachDB, Snowflake, Kafka, DataDog
We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you’re excited about this role, but do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed above, we encourage you to apply.
Butter Payments is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis forbidden under federal, state, or local law. Butter considers all qualified applicants in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Please review our CCPA policies here.

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Full Time

Experience level

Mid-level

Salary

Salary: 220k-280k CAD

Location requirements

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Canada +/- 0 hours

About Butter Payments

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Through groundbreaking technology, Butter Payments is revolutionizing how subscription-based businesses handle failed payments and involuntary churn. The company leverages patent-pending machine learning models to analyze hundreds of variables for each failed transaction, deeply understanding the real-time state of any given payment. This allows Butter Payments to optimize for authorization rates, moving beyond generic, one-size-fits-all retry approaches. Instead of processing failed payments in batches, Butter takes a per-payment approach, treating each one individually to maximize the chances of success. Their system is designed to ensure that legitimate payments are not mistakenly flagged as fraudulent or lost within an archaic payment ecosystem. This focus on intelligent payment recovery helps businesses retain their hard-earned subscribers and recover millions of dollars in revenue that would otherwise be lost. Clients include prominent names like Fabletics, The Athletic, Dialpad, Dr. Squatch, and Masterclass, demonstrating the platform's effectiveness across various subscription models.

Butter Payments' innovative approach directly addresses a significant pain point for subscription companies, where failed payments can account for a substantial portion of revenue loss and customer churn. By building and deploying custom machine learning algorithms tailored to each client's specific business—considering factors like subscription value, customer base, and product type—Butter provides a bespoke solution to a complex problem. The platform integrates directly with existing payment processors and subscription management tools, including popular commercial tech stacks like Stripe and Recharge, as well as custom in-house systems. This seamless integration, often requiring no code for third-party tools, allows businesses to quickly implement Butter's advanced recovery strategies. The company's commitment to innovation is further underscored by its continuous efforts to enhance payment health, increase customer lifetime value, and reduce chargebacks, ultimately contributing to significant top-line ARR growth for its clients. Butter Payments is dedicated to ending involuntary churn, transforming revenue losses into growth opportunities for the world's leading subscription companies.

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Butter Payments

Company size

51-200 employees

Founded in

2020

Chief executive officer

Sofya Pogreb, Vijay Menon

Employees live in

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