Backend Engineer - Financial Platform

HoneyBook is the leading AI-powered business management platform for service-based business owners. Designed to enhance - not replace - independent professionals. HoneyBook’s AI-powered tools help businesses attract leads, connect with clients, book projects, and manage payments more efficiently. With AI seamlessly integrated into every workflow, entrepreneurs can focus on their craft while scaling their businesses with confidence. Since its founding in 2013, HoneyBook has powered over 25 million client relationships and processed more than $12 billion in transactions, helping independent businesses grow faster and smarter.

Our culture is built on five core values that inform everything we do. We encourage collaboration, feedback, ownership, and maintain a growth mindset. We know experience comes in many forms - some visible on your resume, others not. No one candidate will be a 100% perfect match to our description, so if you thrive in a fast-paced, intellectually curious environment and have relevant experience, we encourage you to apply.

About the Team

Our team is building the financial infrastructure that powers HoneyBook’s money movement - from checkout to payout. We focus on creating reliable, resilient, scalable, and observable systems that ensure money moves securely and efficiently across our platform.

What You’ll Do

As a Backend Engineer on the Financial Platform team, you will design and build the systems that power HoneyBook’s money movement.
You’ll work on highly reliable, resilient, and observable services that ensure funds are processed securely, accurately, and at scale. You will help shape the future of HoneyBook’s financial infrastructure, enabling and supporting financial products across the platform while collaborating closely with engineering, product, member experience, and operations.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering.

• Strong understanding of reliability, scalability, and system design.

• Test-oriented problem solver.

• Enthusiasm for working on critical infrastructure and serving product teams across the organization.

• Strong ownership mindset and ability to drive projects end-to-end.

• Team player, strong communication skills, egoless, transparent and positive attitude.

• Ability to see the big picture: HoneyBook is on a mission to improve how independent businesses operate and grow.

• Experience building financial systems or products - an advantage.

The good stuff:

Mission-driven: You'll be joining more than just another startup. Our members’ success is at the heart of everything we do.Impact: We move quickly and encourage every employee to push the envelope. Our best ideas come from out-of-the-box thinking and innovation; be ready to fail fast and often!Compensation: We offer a competitive salary and meaningful equity grants.Benefits & perks: From wellness programs to exceptional family leave policies, the health and happiness of our employees are foremost.

Our core values:

People come first: We prioritize people as we explore opportunities and work through challenges.Raise the bar: We push for greatness—for ourselves, each other, and our members.Own it: Trust and ownership let us make decisions with confidence.We love what we do: We bring passion to our work and love what we create for our members.Keep it real: Authenticity, respect, and transparency are at our core.

The opportunity at HoneyBook is huge. Our primary customers today are creative businesses that generate $150B in revenue per year in the US. Founded in 2013, HoneyBook is based in San Francisco and Tel Aviv, has raised $498M, and is funded by Tiger Global Management, Norwest Venture Partners, Aleph, Hillsven Capital, OurCrowd, Durable Capital Partners LP, Vintage Investment Partners, Battery Ventures, Citi Ventures, Zeev Ventures, and 01 Advisors.

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