ZenPayroll Blog

ZenPayroll

UX Designer, Full Time, San Francisco - funded $6.1M

http://www.zenpayroll.com

jobs at zenpayroll.com

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We're building the future of payroll. We launched in 2012 (http://zenpayroll.com/press) and raised $6.1M in our first round of financing so we could focus on building a long term foundation for the company. Our investors include the CEOs of Dropbox, Yelp, Yammer, Box, among others, as well as Google Ventures and Salesforce (full list at http://zenpayroll.com/investors). We currently have a product that our customers love, and we're processing millions of dollars in payroll every month. Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have had two prior exits. We're hungry to build something truly great and we're in this for the long haul.

At ZenPayroll, you will:

(1) Be an owner of what you build.

(2) Conceptualize, design, and build product experiences that make users smile.

(3) Design a product that processes millions and millions of dollars in payroll.

(4) Understand customer pain points, come up with solutions, and then prototype, iterate, and launch frequently.

(5) Design and build landing pages, email campaigns, icons, infographics, and application features.

If solving a real pain point for millions of people gets you excited, we'd love to speak with you.

To apply, send a note to jobs [at] zenpayroll [dot] com and include your (1) portfolio, LinkedIn, GitHub, resume, and/or any project/portfolio pages. (2) a note on why…

San Francisco, Full-time, Intern and H1B OK

Looking for full-stack, Rails + Javascript engineer.

ZenPayroll (https://zenpayroll.com/) is building the future of payroll. If you love solving core, foundational problems, we'd love to speak with you.

Our founders are second time entrepreneurs from Stanford who have sold two prior companies. We've raised $6.1M from an impressive list investors who believe it's time for payroll to be disrupted, including YCombinator, Google Ventures, Salesforce, and the CEOs of Box, Yammer, Dropbox, YouTube, Yelp, and Philz Coffee (yes, the best coffee in the world). See https://zenpayroll.com/investors

Technologies we use include Rails, Backbone, MySQL, and CoffeeScript. We are test-driven, using RSpec and Jasmine.

Company benefits include:

- Free breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Open vacation policy. We don't count days.
- Buy or build your ideal work environment.
- Fitness stipend.
- A sunny, top floor office space.
- Housing stipend if you live near the office.
- Competitive salary and equity package.
- Health, dental and vision benefits.

Positions we are hiring for:

- Software engineers.
- Payroll compliance experts.
- Marketing and sales.
- Customer support

For a full list of requirements for the positions, please visit: https://zenpayroll.com/careers

To apply, email jobs@zenpayroll.com and include (1) your LinkedIn and resume (github as well if you are applying for a software position), (2) a note on why…

Hey there! Just to give some context from a ZenPayroll engineer:

ZenPayroll does have splits between multiple bank accounts[1]. You can split your net pay by amount ($100 in Account1, $200 in Account2, the rest in Account3) or by percentage.

Employees can even chose to donate a portion of their paycheck to any 501c3 in the United States[2].

Regarding BTC payouts, that's an interesting area, though currently runs into a number of wage laws. Many states necessitate that employees be paid in cash or cash equivalent. Bitcoin is not a cash equivalent (nor are more traditional value stores like gold.) Even ACH direct deposit had to be carved out as an exemption, to give some context on how strict these laws are.

It's great to see others diving into the payroll space. There is a great opportunity to help millions of small businesses.

[1] http://help.zenpayroll.com/customer/portal/articles/972807-employee-direct-deposit
[2] https://zenpayroll.com/blog/zenpayroll-giving/
[3] https://zenpayroll.com/api/v1/states

From their security page[0]:

>The bank account information you provide in order to complete payroll processing is secured using the same technology that banks use. ZenPayroll employees never have access to this information and it is fully encrypted and stored securely in our system.

This can't be true can it? Surely an admin/dev has access to the crypto procedures and the key has to exist somewhere, right? At some point the key has to meet the encrypted data and if they are sending ACH or other payments, surely the "inaccessible to employees" data has to be decrypted and sent, right?

Is this just layman speak for "Rhonda the Receptionist can't see your account number"?

[0]https://zenpayroll.com/security

Poor bank UI crushes startup's bank account.

Thanks for posting Seth. Must have been a tough one to write.

I can't say this enough, use Zenpayroll.

In a prior company I had one of the other payroll giants (Zenpayroll didn't exist 10 years ago). It was awful. We switched from one giant to another to make 401k easier. But in the switch, both companies reported earnings to the IRS. All my employees received notices from the IRS saying they each owed $10k+ in back taxes and penalties. No one ended up having to pay, but when the IRS comes calling, it's stressful even when you're not wrong.

Zenpayroll is fantastic. New game, new level.

https://zenpayroll.com/

I'm the CEO of ZenPayroll and I made a comment to the main thread with more background on the company, and our mission.

Here's a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7265814

There are also two recent blog posts we've made which might be helpful. The first is about the funding, and second is our 2013 Year-In-Review, which highlights what we've been working on.

https://zenpayroll.com/blog/series-a-funding
https://zenpayroll.com/blog/zenpayroll-2013-year-in-review

Hope this helps!