Senior Software Engineer

Trayd, in one sentence

The role

What you’ll do

• Own major projects end-to-end: scoping, technical design, implementation, testing, and release
• Build full-stack features across the frontend, backend, and data layers in a production SaaS environment
• Design and evolve systems for payroll, deductions, benefits, compliance, and accounting workflows where correctness matters
• Model and migrate relational data in Postgres for complex real-world financial workflows
• Make strong architectural tradeoffs in ambiguous, fast-moving product environments
• Debug production issues, improve reliability, and drive problems through to resolution
• Collaborate closely with product and operations to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Work directly with customers and internal stakeholders to understand how construction companies actually operate
• Contribute as a senior engineer through code reviews, design discussions, and raising the quality bar across the team

Example problems you might work on

• Building workflows that handle union pay rules, deductions, and benefits correctly across job types and locations
• Designing systems that make payroll auditable and explainable, not just “it worked somehow”
• Making accounting exports and job-costing data reliable enough that controllers trust them
• Improving performance and correctness in a system that processes large amounts of payroll data under deadlines
• Creating tooling and guardrails that prevent edge cases from becoming customer emergencies

Why Trayd

• This is real infrastructure. Payroll and compliance are high-stakes. The work is technical, regulated, and unforgiving in the best way
• You will have real ownership. You won’t be one engineer on a giant team shipping tiny changes. You will own systems that matter
• We’re winning in a hard market. Strong customer demand, real usage, and a product that customers rely on weekly
• The domain is deep. Construction is full of complexity that most software ignores. We build for the real workflows
• In-person team, high velocity. We work together in Soho five days a week because it makes us faster and sharper
• You’ll grow quickly. Small team, high responsibility, constant production exposure, and meaningful influence over the product

Who you are

• 5+ years building production software on a team
• Full-stack capable (or excited to be) and comfortable working across systems
• High ownership mindset: you ship, you fix, you follow through
• Strong judgment balancing speed, correctness, and maintainability
• You communicate clearly and collaborate well across functions
• NYC-based or ready to relocate quickly

Nice to have

• React, Next.js, Prisma, tRPC, Postgres
• Strong TypeScript and Node.js fundamentals
• Experience in fintech, payroll, accounting, compliance, or other high-stakes systems

Working style

Compensation