Founding Software Engineer

Company: Tank Payments

Location: Austin, TX

Posted on: October 22

About Us

Tank Payments is building modern financial infrastructure for the trucking industry. We offer payables automation software for logistics businesses that make hundreds of payments to trucking businesses every day. For trucking businesses, we provide a best-in-class banking platform, designed to meet the unique financial needs of the trucking sector.

Why Join Us

• Opportunity: Be a founding member of a fast-growing YC startup that's modernizing payments in one of the largest industries in the US. Youll have a crucial role in scaling the business while accelerating your career.
• Timing: Tank Payments has hit a key inflection point with 5x revenue growth YoY, but were still early enough to offer significant upside with reduced risk.
• Team: Join a world-class founding team that is ambitious, experienced, and tight-knit. We maintain a high bar for talent, ensuring a supportive, high-performance culture as we grow.

Requirements

• 1+ years of experience in software development (internships or personal projects welcome)
• Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure, web technologies, and modern frameworks
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in an early-stage startup environment
• Comfortable with learning new technologies and adapting quickly to changing requirements.
• Collaborative, curious, and eager to work closely with other teams like product and design.
• Not required: Previous experience with our tech stack or in the logistics/trucking industry

Technical Challenges Youll be Working On

• Money Movement, at Scale: You'll build systems to securely and reliably move millions of dollars in payments, managing the complexity of financial transactions across multiple stakeholders.
• Operational Excellence: Optimize our systems to ensure high availability and fault tolerance, enabling 24/7 payments and avoiding downtime in mission-critical operations.
• Advanced AI Models: Implement AI pipelines for intelligent document processing, payment optimization, and risk assessment.
• Fraud Mitigation: Build real-time fraud detection and prevention mechanisms to safeguard our payment infrastructure and mitigate financial risk.
• Front-end and Back-end: Develop a seamless and intuitive user experience on both the client side and behind-the-scenes architecture, ensuring a responsive, scalable platform.
• Variety: Work across a broad spectrum of technologies and challenges, from backend APIs to user-facing dashboards, providing variety and constant learning opportunities.

Benefits

• Compensation: Competitive salary with flexible equity packages, allowing you to benefit directly from the companys growth.
• Learning & Development: A collaborative environment focused on mentorship, with opportunities to grow and build world-class software.
• Healthcare: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage100% covered by us with multiple plan options to suit your needs.
• Time-off: Enjoy a self-managed, uncapped PTO policy for a healthy work-life harmony.

In Person

We are building in-person in our HQ in downtown Austin! We believe that working together in the same space gives us a competitive edgeit fosters deeper collaboration, faster problem-solving, and stronger team bonds. We love the energy of our office and believe its key to building a world-class company.