Software Engineer - Payments Foundations Group

Description

monday.com offers an advanced AI work platform that integrates people, workflows, and AI agents to help teams plan, execute, and achieve results with unmatched efficiency. Its tools, including monday sidekick, AI Blocks, AI Workflows, and monday vibe, enable users to automate processes, create custom software quickly, and expand team capacity with specialized AI agents. Supporting operations like work management, CRM, service, and development, the platform is used by over 250,000 customers, including 60% of Fortune 500 companies, in more than 200 countries. With a global presence, monday.com has offices in leading cities such as Tel Aviv, New York, London, Sydney, and Tokyo.

About The Group

Payments Foundations owns the infrastructure behind every purchase, subscription, and AI credit transaction at monday.com. We process billions of dollars annually, and our systems are the foundation for how monday.com monetizes its products globally — including the AI credits metering infrastructure that powers the company's fastest-growing product surface.

The problems we solve are high-stakes and deeply interconnected: financial correctness, distributed consistency, payment reliability, and metered usage enforcement — all at scale, all in production, all the time.

What the Work Actually Looks Like

You'll own meaningful slices of a system that moves real money. That means:

• Evolving the core billing engine — subscriptions, plan changes, renewals, prorations, and invoicing across thousands of enterprise accounts.
• Building and hardening the AI credits lifecycle: bucket creation, consumption tracking, quota enforcement, and state transitions across plan changes.
• Integrating with payment infrastructure and financial systems — and being the person who deeply understands why those integrations are the way they are, not just how to call .
• Designing event-driven pipelines that propagate billing state to downstream systems reliably, not just usually.
• Debugging production issues where the blast radius is a customer's invoice or a blocked payment — and being the one who sees it through to resolution.

What We're Looking For

The two things we hire for above everything else are ownership and impact.

• Ownership means treating a problem as yours until it's actually solved. Noticing something broken and fixing it without being asked. Pushing back when a requirement doesn't make sense. Following up after a deploy. Caring about the outcome, not the ticket.
• Impact means orienting your work around what moves the needle — for the product, for the business, for the customer. It means choosing the right problem to solve, not just solving the problem in front of you. Engineers who thrive here ask "what's the most valuable thing I can do right now?" before they ask "what should I build next?".

Everything else flows from those two:

• System design instincts. You've seen what happens when data modeling and distributed consistency go wrong at scale. You design for the failure cases.
• Judgment over output. You use AI coding tools fluently to move faster — but you're the one deciding what's right, reviewing what's generated, and owning what ships.Taste. You know the difference between a clean solution and a liability dressed as pragmatism. You leave code better than you found it.
• Comfort with ambiguity. You can pick up an unfamiliar codebase, understand what it's trying to do, and make a good change without breaking things you didn't touch

Background that helps you ramp faster:

• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and the tradeoffs around eventual consistency
• TypeScript/Node.js and PostgreSQL at production scale

Why This Team

• The stakes are real. Code quality here has a direct line to revenue and customer trust. You'll feel the weight of that — and most people on this team find it motivating
• Small team, broad ownership. You won't be a ticket-taker. You'll have opinions about what gets built and why, and those opinions will matter
• The domain is genuinely complex. There's no shortage of interesting problems — and no shortage of impact to be had
• AI-augmented team. We use AI tooling aggressively to move faster — which means the work that remains is the work that requires judgment, and that's exactly what we hire for