What the role involves
Senior software engineer (full stack)
New York, NY (in-person, Soho)
$185,000 to $220,000 + meaningful equity
Trayd, in one sentence
Trayd is building the operating system for commercial construction: payroll, compliance, and back office workflows that actually work in the real world.
Construction is one of the biggest industries in North America, and it still runs on a messy mix of spreadsheets, legacy payroll providers, and manual processes that break the moment things get even slightly complex. The people doing the work are the hardest working people in the country, and the companies running crews are forced to spend hours every week fighting systems that were never built for them.
We’re changing that.
Trayd started with a simple promise: construction workers should be able to access the money they already earned faster, and subcontractors should be able to run payroll without chaos. Today, we’re building deeper infrastructure across payroll, union rules, job costing, and accounting workflows so our customers can run their businesses with confidence. We’re in the next phase of growth, with accelerating customer demand and a platform that runs real payroll every week, and we’re scaling engineering to match it.
Trayd is based in New York and backed by Y Combinator.
The role
We’re hiring a senior software engineer to help build the core systems that power Trayd.
This is not a “take tickets and stay in your lane” job. Engineers at Trayd own product areas end-to-end. You’ll design, build, ship, and maintain real systems that move real money, under real compliance constraints, for customers who depend on us every week.
Payroll is one of the only product categories where 99% accuracy is an F. The systems have to be built for correctness, traceability, and edge cases from day one.
You’ll work on a small, high-output team where decisions are made quickly, quality matters, and your work will show up in production constantly.
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 da
What they ask for
About Trayd
Trayd is a B2B construction payroll platform and back office management system designed for same-day pay. We allow the 7M construction workers in the US to get access to their earned wages 7-10 days sooner than legacy payroll providers. With a unique spin on traditional payroll, Trayd is on a mission to create back office efficiencies for commercial subcontractors while simultaneously addressing the significant labor shortage affecting the $2.1TR North American construction industry. Trayd is bigger than construction payroll. It's the promise that the hardest working people get access to their money, as and when they need it, creating greater financial wellness across the board. Not only that, we are pioneering digital cash access for a demographic traditionally overlooked while simultaneously modernizing operations in an industry that has been slow to adapt. The challenges and opportunities with Trayd are abundant, promising an engaging journey ahead.
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