Software Engineer (Staff), Financial Platform & Infra

What You'll Do9

• Set the technical roadmap and build the core infrastructure for global payments and payouts from the ground up.
• Design payment workflows across currencies, providers, and payment rails, with idempotency, safe retries, and clear failure handling.
• Create double-entry ledger, reconciliation, and audit systems that track transactions accurately.
• Connect banking partners and payment providers, including ACH, SEPA, SWIFT, and local payment networks.
• Build financial controls, monitoring, approval flows, and fraud prevention measures for money movement.
• Design event-driven systems that handle high transaction volumes, provider outages, delayed settlements, and failed transactions.
• Lead architecture decisions, design reviews, and complex migrations while protecting payment accuracy and operational continuity.
• Work with founders, finance, and operations to turn financial needs into scalable engineering systems.
• Set engineering practices for financial correctness, observability, incident response, and long-term platform reliability.

Requirements10

• At least 8 years of backend software engineering experience, including substantial technical ownership of production financial systems.
• Experience building payment, payout, or ledger infrastructure from initial design through production and scale.
• Strong knowledge of payment processing, money movement, transaction lifecycles, idempotency, concurrency, and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with double-entry ledgers, financial reconciliation, and auditable transaction systems.
• Experience connecting payment providers and banking infrastructure across payment rails, currencies, and geographies.
• Backend engineering skills in TypeScript or a similar language, plus SQL, relational databases, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience building reliable financial systems with failure handling, monitoring, security, and operational controls.
• Knowledge of financial data integrity, transaction consistency, and safe migrations of business-critical systems.
• Ability to own complex technical initiatives, make architecture decisions, and deliver production systems in a fast-moving setting.
• Strong communication skills and experience working with engineering, finance, operations, and executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications6

• Experience with global contractor payouts, payroll infrastructure, or cross-border payment platforms.
• Familiarity with KYC/KYB, sanctions screening, tax documentation, and audit controls.
• Experience scaling financial platforms to process millions of dollars each month across multiple countries.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, PCI DSS, or financial audit requirements.
• Experience with stablecoin or crypto payment infrastructure.
• Experience building internal finance tools, reconciliation dashboards, or payment operations platforms.

Who Should Apply

The ideal candidate has built financial infrastructure from the ground up and brings deep backend, payments, ledger, and distributed-systems experience. Engineers who can own major architecture decisions and work across engineering, finance, and operations will fit the role’s scope.

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