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Braintree | Developers, DevOps Engineers, Product Managers | San Francisco, Chicago, Remote | Full-time (https://www.braintreepayments.com)

We provide the global commerce tools people need to build businesses, accept payments, and enable commerce for their users. It’s the simplest way for entrepreneurs and business owners, to get paid for their great ideas - across any device, and through almost any payment method. Merchants in more than 40 countries worldwide can accept, split, and enable payments in more than 130 currencies using Braintree APIs. We work with Uber, Airbnb, GitHub, Pinterest, Dropbox, Twilio, and many other great startups.

We value aptitude over alma mater, if you're smart, empathetic and know some stuff, we want to work with you. We have daily catered lunches and snacks, two open dev days a month, tracking-free vacations, excellent benefits and competitive pay.

To see open jobs and apply, see: https://www.braintreepayments.com/careers

You can also email me at braintreeco@gmail.com, if you have questions. I won't reply to copypasta.

Chicago, IL - Braintree (http://www.braintreepayments.com)

We mostly work with Ruby/Rails. Our team is talented, our practices are collaborative (pairing, agile), we work on challenging problems (high availability, quality of service, scaling, security), and our devs have 10% time to work on whatever they want. Developers use and love our product. Although we mostly work with Ruby, we also work with Python, Node, Java, .NET, PHP, and Perl. Braintree is profitable, you'll have standard benefits (health/dental/vision), 401k match, ample vacation, and an above market salary.

More about our people, practices, and software: http://www.braintreepayments.com/inside-braintree/how-we-built-the-software-that-processes-billions-in-payments

Apply at http://joinbraintree.com or email me if you have any questions (address in profile).

https://www.braintreepayments.com/

"Interchange +.9% + €.10 per transaction. €100 per month minimum • Everything included • No additional fees". This is probably shown only to EU visitors.

I also confirmed this with braintreepayments support and their reply was: "The €100 is a monthly minimum based on a per transaction fee of €0.10. For example, if your first month of transaction charges are €68, you would need to pay an additional €32 to 'top up' the amount. Interchange + 0.90% is not part of the calculation. Only the per transaction fee of €0.10 is used to calculate the €100 monthly minimum."

When I switch the site to "United States" it reads:
"2.9% + $.30 per transaction. No additional fees • No minimums • Everything included"

Extremely annoyed by seeing this minimum applied only to the EU countries!

San Francisco, CA (SOMA) - Generalists & Android Engineers
www.braintreepayments.com - kyle.barbato@braintreepayments.com

We’re polygots. We write most of our software in Ruby but don’t confine ourselves to using a single programming language. We use the best tool for whatever task is at hand. We pair program. We like object oriented programming. We test, obsessively. When we say we’re an agile software development environment, we mean it. We’re pragmatic, not dogmatic, and we value our people.

Take a look at some of our blog posts to see some of the problems we face:

http://www.braintreepayments.com/inside-braintree/how-we-built-the-software-that-processes-billions-in-payments

Take a peek at some of the code we have on github: https://github.com/braintree

We have just gone down this route in the last 12 months with our SaaS product (http://formitize.com) and unfortunately for now the choices are limited.

Paypal is the obvious one of course, but I am not a huge fan, hate their API and don't trust one day the account will be frozen for 6 months from an income spike.

Pin is coming along but is still in beta so we were not prepared to risk it just yet, and forget the banking API's, the costs and hoop jumping is a little silly.

Our solution in the end was Braintree (https://www.braintreepayments.com/) who's API is infinitely easier than Paypals and handles most of the tricky stuff you might need to throw at it being a SaaS company.

Best of luck, hope it helps.

Having done the same (Seattle then Chicago) trading is big here, and pays well, but can be less than rewarding if you like building products.

That being said, I think there are plenty of interesting tech companies here if you dig a bit. For example, CleverSafe (https://www.cleversafe.com/), Signal (http://www.signal.co/), and BrainTree (https://www.braintreepayments.com/) are larger ones with real engineering challenges.

And, if you are interested in a smaller Chicago company doing interesting things, feel free to check out Earshot (http://earshotinc.com/careers) - we are hiring. </plug>

Even if Earshot isn't right for you feel free to connect with me if you are interested in the Chicago startup scene.