Senior Software Engineer

Position: Senior Software Engineer I, Payments
At Qualia, we've built the leading B2B real estate technology that transforms the home buying and selling experience into a simple, secure, and enjoyable process. Our SMB and Enterprise products bring together users from across the real estate ecosystem—home buyers and sellers, lenders, title and escrow agents, and real estate agents—onto a single shared digital closing platform, providing greater clarity and transparency to real estate transactions.

Today, through our business customers across the country, millions of consumers use Qualia to close on homes every year.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK ONWithin Qualia, you'll join the Payments team. Every real estate closing ends with money changing hands: earnest money deposits, loan funding, mortgage payoffs, seller proceeds, and commissions. Qualia powers a substantial portion of U.S. residential home sales every year, totaling billions of dollars in transaction volume. The Payments team builds the systems that move those funds safely, accurately, and on time.

The stakes are high. A single closing often moves hundreds of thousands of dollars between multiple parties on a tight deadline, and real estate wires are a prime target for fraud. Our mission is to make money movement the most trustworthy part of the closing, so title and escrow teams, and the home buyers they serve, never have to wonder where their funds are.

HOW WE WORKOur engineers are entrepreneurial, pragmatic builders who move quickly without cutting corners, and who are as comfortable owning a project end to end as they are collaborating with a team. We ship frequently, as often as multiple times a day, and work directly with design, compliance, and customer-facing teams to build payment experiences our customers depend on.

RESPONSIBILITIES Design, build, and maintain systems that process ACH and wire transfers at scale (billions of dollars annually), including origination, settlement, reconciliation, and exception handling

Build and harden payment-processing pipelines that integrate with banking partners, payment rails, and third-party financial APIsImplement controls for wire fraud prevention, transaction verification, and anomaly detection alongside our security and compliance teams

Improve and extend core web applications (frontend and backend) that support escrow accounting and closing-day money movement

Own architectural decisions for payments infrastructure, including data integrity, idempotency, retry/failure handling, and audit logging

Partner with Compliance, Risk, and Accounting stakeholders to ensure systems meet regulatory and audit requirements (e.g., NACHA rules, wire fraud regulations, SOC 2 controls)
Participate in on-call rotation for payment-critical systemsYOUR BACKGROUND THAT LIKELY MAKES YOU A MATCHYou've taken full ownership of complex, high-liability systems in production, and you know how to respond calmly and methodically when funds are on the line5+ years of experience as a strong full-stack web developer is required

Direct experience building or maintaining other money-movement systems (banking, fintech, payments processors, or similar regulated environments strongly preferred)
Strong understanding of transactional integrity, idempotency, and failure-mode design in financial systems

Familiarity with payment rails, banking APIs, or financial compliance standards (NACHA, OFAC screening, PCI, SOC
2) is a strong plus

You have made key architectural decisions for large, high-stakes projects

You have mentored junior developers

You have worked on multiple engineering teams, both small and large

Good product sense, strong attention to detail, and a passion for building systems people can trust with their moneyTHE TECH STACK YOU'LL USEJavaScript / Type Script / NodeJSSPA Frontend libraries like React and MeteorJSMongoDBMicroservice architecture / KubernetesAWSWe are a remote-first development organization that values flexibility in how our teams work. Because of that, while the role is based in Austin, TX, we are open to remote candidates for this position.

We have other physical office locations in San Francisco, California, and Concord, New Hampshire.

WHY QUALIAQualia is made up of incredibly bright, mission-driven coworkers who are passionate about using technology to solve real-world problems-and we're growing quickly. In order to continue building an engaging and dynamic organization, we're committed to giving everyone the support they need to do great work.

Our benefits package is designed to allow our team…