Senior Software Engineer (Golang)

About Relay Payments

Relay Payments is building a modern digital payment network to revolutionize the trucking and logistics industries. Trusted by more than 500,000 drivers, 100,000 carriers, and 2,000 truck stops nationwide, Relay has brought efficiency and automation to an industry historically reliant on cash, checks, and cards. Relay has joined forces with industry leaders like Pilot, Loves, Maverik, Schneider, Coyote Logistics, Lineage Logistics, and others to provide secure, reliable over-the-road transactions. Founded in 2019, our Atlanta-based fintech includes more than 150 team members and has won awards for product innovation, customer service, and organizational culture. We are a proud sponsor of NASCAR and William Byron from Hendrick Motorsports for 2025. For more information about Relay, visit relaypayments.com.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Relay, youll be responsible for building the next generation payments network for an industry that has seen little innovation in the last 50 years. Youll help drivers save hours each week by making transactions painless. Youll help everyone in the transaction chain get visibility into spending, perform accurate accounting, and save money. Youll build fast and reliable payment products for an industry that keeps America running.

• Design and lead the implementation of consistently high quality systems with contributions from one or more teams.
• Shape broad architecture across the organization by shipping multiple large services, complex libraries, and major pieces of infrastructure.
• Identify and proactively tackle system-wide or organizational technical debt while being a prolific contributor and making a positive impact on the entire companys technical trajectory.
• Substantially support delivery and handle large cross-team development efforts.
• Work across the entire stack to deliver solutions end-to-end with a focus on Golang.
• This role works a hybrid schedule, and is in-office at Cobb Galleria Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  
  

What Makes You a Great Fit

• 7 years of Golang experience; preference for candidates with software engineering experience in payments or FinTech.
• Detail-oriented systems thinker who can work well independently or with others on a team.
• Ability to maintain flexibility and weigh business and technical priorities.
• Experience architecting solutions in a thoughtful way - limiting the number of technologies, justifying decisions, and articulating tradeoffs.
• Ability to execute on determined design decisions.
• Good written and oral communication skills to help educate others in the organization about changing processes and frameworks.
• A solid understanding of software testing strategies.
  
  

Systems and Frameworks

Role

As part of this role, you will be working with several systems and frameworks at Relay. We are looking for engineers who have deep experience in the following areas:

• Golang
• PostgreSQL
• Service-oriented architectures
• Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (IoC)
• SOLID architecture design principles
  
  

About Our Team

• We work in small, cross-functional teams that include product managers, designers, and QA.
• We value continuous learning in our everyday work.
• We rely heavily on automated testing and CI.
• We use agile development and lean startup principles and practices to deliver products.
• Our stack: GoLang, PostgreSQL, Docker, AWS, React, React Native, git.
  
  

Our Core Values

• Invent the Future - We embrace the spirit of invention, the idea that theres always a better way. Together we dream big, fail fast, drive forward, and find creative solutions where others see roadblocks. We prize grit, resilience and speed as we work to transform our industry and to move it into the future.
• Own the Work - Our work is a source of personal pride and fulfillment. Were here because we relish a challenge and enjoy the exercise of proactively identifying and solving problems. We understand the power of accountability and are in constant pursuit of more and better for our customers, our partners and ourselves.
• Were in it Together - Were all in, committed to, and driven by our shared ambition and vision; we understand that alignment and collaboration are imperative. We set aside our ego to actively sync with one another, becoming greater than the sum of our parts. We are consistently open and generous with information, clear, concise and direct in our communication.
  
  

Why Relay Payments

• This is a game-changing chance to join one of Atlantas best-funded, most well-positioned fintech start-ups.
• We are generously sharing equity in the company - everyones an owner!
• We invest in your future with our 401K match program and dedicated personal/professional development funds.
• Do whats best for your mental, physical and emotional health with our Be Reasonable PTO policy.
• We offer competitive benefits including medical, dental and vision insurance.
• And lots, lots more!
  
  

Relay Payments is an equal opportunity employer. At Relay Payments, we make all employment decisions, which include hiring, promoting, transferring, demoting, evaluating, compensating and separating, without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, religion, age, national origin, pregnancy, citizenship, disability, service in the uniform services, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.