Vice President of Engineering

Freely Payments is a venture-backed fintech company transforming payment acceptance for the $1 trillion-plus food distribution industry.

Most wholesale distributors have historically avoided or limited card acceptance because of high processing costs. Freely changes that. Through exclusive network rates, intelligent transaction routing, interchange optimization, and innovative cash-back programs, Freely helps distributors reduce payment processing costs by as much as 50%—and, in certain programs, to near zero.

Our platform enables distributors to improve cash flow, reduce credit risk, streamline accounts receivable, and offer customers greater payment flexibility and rewards. We are building an integrated B2B payments ecosystem that includes payment acceptance, automated reconciliation and cash application, merchant analytics, and co-branded card programs.

Freely has already signed several of the largest distributors in the industry, with a growing backlog of contracted customers ready to be integrated and launched.

Mastercard is both an investor and strategic partner in Freely, giving us access to differentiated network relationships and helping us build a new category of B2B payments. Our team is composed of experienced leaders in payments, food distribution, financial technology, and enterprise software who share a commitment to modernizing how distributors accept and manage payments.

Freely Payments is a venture-backed fintech company transforming payment acceptance for the $1 trillion-plus food distribution industry.

Most wholesale distributors have historically avoided or limited card acceptance because of high processing costs. Freely changes that. Through exclusive network rates, intelligent transaction routing, interchange optimization, and innovative cash-back programs, Freely helps distributors reduce payment processing costs by as much as 50%—and, in certain programs, to near zero.

Our platform enables distributors to improve cash flow, reduce credit risk, streamline accounts receivable, and offer customers greater payment flexibility and rewards. We are building an integrated B2B payments ecosystem that includes payment acceptance, automated reconciliation and cash application, merchant analytics, and co-branded card programs.

Freely has already signed several of the largest distributors in the industry, with a growing backlog of contracted customers ready to be integrated and launched.

Mastercard is both an investor and strategic partner in Freely, giving us access to differentiated network relationships and helping us build a new category of B2B payments. Our team is composed of experienced leaders in payments, food distribution, financial technology, and enterprise software who share a commitment to modernizing how distributors accept and manage payments.

The Vice President of Engineering is a full-time, on-site leadership position based in Arlington, Virginia. This is a founding-level engineering role with responsibility for building and leading Freely’s engineering organization while shaping the architecture and technical direction of our payments platform.

This is not a maintenance role. You will join a company with demonstrated product-market fit, meaningful payment volume, and signed customer demand. Your immediate priority will be translating that demand into live production volume by accelerating customer integrations and strengthening the systems that support onboarding, payment processing, billing, reconciliation, analytics, and reporting.

As the platform grows, you will lead the development of automated reconciliation and cash-application capabilities that allow Freely to scale to billions of dollars in payment volume without increasing operational headcount at the same rate.

You will work directly with the CEO, founders, product leaders, customers, processors, and strategic partners to translate business requirements into reliable and scalable technical solutions. You will also build and mentor the engineering team, establish development standards, and create a culture of accountability, urgency, collaboration, and technical excellence.

• Set the technical vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap for Freely’s payments platform.
• Build, lead, and mentor a high-performing engineering organization.
• Remain sufficiently hands‑on to evaluate architecture, review critical technical decisions, and help solve complex engineering problems.
• Lead development across distributor onboarding, payment processing, billing, reconciliation, cash application, reporting, and analytics.
• Accelerate integrations that move signed distributors from implementation into live production.
• Partner closely with product and business leadership to prioritize initiatives based on customer impact, revenue, risk, and strategic value.
• Establish engineering processes, development standards, documentation practices, and quality controls.
• Improve platform…