Braintree Careers

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Hierarchy is the most commonly used structure in organizing human efforts. There are a lot of benefits to hierarchies including its near infinite scalability and ability to accommodate different talents, preferences and experience. The drawbacks to hierarchies include a substantial talent tax in the form of management where the best people are managers, not doers, and the probability of disconnectedness, politics, bureaucracy, slowness, and losing talent is much higher.

At Braintree, we embrace small and flat and seek in people a unique combination of skills and personal characteristics. Our goal is to create a self-sustaining ecosystem. Our best people are doers, not managers. We expect everyone to hold themselves accountable for their own work and to abide by our core principles which are:

1. Self management: both hands are firmly gripped on the steering wheel
2. Ownership: I’ve got it, you don’t need to think about it
3. Initiative: it’s not going to happen unless I do it
4. Virtue: honesty, good deeds, kindness, appreciation
5. Problem Solving: nothing that can’t be solved and improved
6. Team work: we before I

If this is the type of environment that you resonates with you, please contact us at hr@getbraintree.com

Do you know someone who would be a good fit? Refer someone who gets hired and we'll pay you $1,500.

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Open Positions

Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

We are a small but mighty team looking to get more mighty. We are looking for someone exceptional because we believe that putting together deliberately smaller teams of all-stars is the best way to build software.

We are essentially a startup. But in a good way. We don’t have all the startup drama. Nor the long hours. Nor any outside investment. And we are profitable.

We are building interesting software in a space without a lot of interesting software: payment solutions.

We are doing greenfield development. Mostly in Rails. But we will leverage other technologies appropriately. For instance, we expect that our system can take advantage of specific features in languages like Erlang and Clojure.

Our challenge is the same as every development shop: build the best software in our space.

Our approach is to hire great developers and place them into an environment that is conducive to hacking and painting. To do this we offer all that you should expect: great salaries, benefits, and team members.

We are not looking for any rock stars. We want to hire super talented people who are more interested in the band’s music than breaking furniture in hotel rooms.

We value aptitude over experience. We also value maintainable teams and codebases, feedback loops, and we prefer essence to ceremony.

And though some of our best developers work remotely, we are building the foundation of a Chicago-based team that will be highly collaborative. This is as much an opportunity to define the team as it is to be a part of it.

If our team and values sound like a good fit for you, please contact us at hr@getbraintree.com.

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B2B Marketer

We're looking for a creative marketer familiar with developer audience engagement, social media, and PR.

If our team and values sound like a good fit for you, please contact us at hr@getbraintree.com.

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Payment Processing Sales Representative

We are looking to hire an exceptional sales person for card not present payment processing (ecommerce, B2B, Mail/Telephone Order).

Please DO NOT apply for this position if:
• You do not have at least 3 years and 4 months sales experience
• You have not consistently been in the top 17% of sales production in relation to your peers
• Your current customers (who you've sold to) wouldn't gush about how awesome you are
• You are political, high maintenance, or think too much of yourself
• Are interested in getting into management (we don't have it)
• You have ever used dishonest or deceptive sales practices

Our sales people love what they do, because:
• We have inbound leads
• We work with some of the most talented and fastest growing tech companies around
• There is no travel
• You're selling a highly differentiated product
• You have exceptional co-workers
• We avoid politics and bureaucracy like the plague
• An entire organization that is committed to thrilling its customers

We would love to talk to you if:
• You have experience selling credit card processing services to online businesses (a very strong preference, but not requirement)
• You have experience selling software (SaaS) to online businesses
• You are accustomed to maintaining a pipeline of a few hundred businesses and closing 20-30 deals a month
• You accept nothing less than thrilling your customers
• You love mastering the industry domain and becoming an expert (we're going to ask you to demonstrate that you're an expert in your current field)
• You are accustomed to selling using phone and email only
• You are technically savvy (this doesn't mean you know how to use Microsoft Office)

Please submit your resume and include in the subject header: Sales Person (Your Name)
Please answer the following questions in the body of the email:

• Please provide us information that demonstrates that you have been a top sales performer, including percentages and numbers (we want all the details)
• Are you currently employed? If not, why? If you are employed, why are you looking for something else?
• What are your long term goals?
• Why do you think you've been so successful at sales?
• Why are you applying to this job?
• Who is your favorite super hero and why?

Compensation: Base plus commissions
Benefits: Health, dental and vision benefits, 401k, paid vacation
Employment: Full-time
Location: Chicago (Wicker Park - 60622)

If interested, please email hr@getbraintree.com with the subject: “Sales Rep.”