Ryan Jones

OpenCoreOS: Forward Deployed Engineer Legacy core banking is broken. It's a monolithic bottleneck holding back the world's largest financial institutions. We are building the breakout solution: an open, AI-native "Thin Ledger" designed to replace brittle, mainframe-era systems with an elegant, composable, and unbreakable platform. If you are passionate about architecting mission-critical distributed systems and want to define the foundation of an industry-wide shift, join us. About OpenCoreOS We are building the operating system for modern finance. Our approach is fundamentally different: A "Thin Ledger," not a thick core: We provide a hyper-performant ledger using Go, Kafka, and multi-region distributed databases. This gives banks a simple, powerful, and open foundation to build on, not a monolithic cage AI-native by design: AI isn't an add-on; it's woven into our fabric. We use it to power autonomous operations, create agentic development workflows, and build an intelligent, self-healing system Unbreakable and open: We engineer for five-nines reliability and bulletproof consistency, targeting the scale of a Tier-1 bank managing hundreds of millions of transactions daily. By building on open technologies and shaping new standards, we ensure our platform provides a foundation for innovation, not another form of lock-in Backed by proven industry builders: Our leadership team combines the strategic insight of ex-McKinsey banking, product, and engineering experts with the battle-tested experience of a founder who built and scaled a mission-critical enterprise fintech company serving the world's largest banks. This is paired with the firsthand operational knowledge of former global bank CIOs, giving us an unparalleled understanding of the market we are redefining What you'll do Customer-facing engineer: As part of a forward deployed Pod consisting of business and technical skillsets, act as the customer-facing engineer to translate business needs into software that works in Production at Tier 1 banks Architect: Embed within the bank’s architecture and infrastructure teams to design the bank’s future state architecture leveraging OpenCoreOS to unlock accelerated innovation Data: Build and maintain high performance data pipelines connecting the bank’s existing systems to OpenCoreOS Build: Build bank use cases (e.g., a digital twin from the bank’s existing core, stablecoins), debug client data and write data pipelines between the bank’s existing systems, and develop proof of concepts Test: Run performance tests and validate scale and resilience Integration: Integrate OpenCoreOS into customer cloud estates leveraging AI to accelerate progress Program Leadership: Serve as the customer point of contact for program health and delivery success and own end-to-end delivery planning with clear management of scope, risks, resources, and stakeholder communications Sales: Support Sales through demos and client requests to help close deals Who you are AI-native engineer: Engineer who naturally integrates AI into your workflow using advanced AI tools Cloud: Background in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and experience with SRE principles Systems builder: Proven track record shipping robust, scalable infrastructure in Golang or similar languages (e.g., Java) Data engineer: Engineer with experience in data-intensive systems and distributed data pipelines with proficiency in Go and Java Distributed systems: Experience with Kafka, concurrency patterns, event-driven architectures, message queues, and multi-region databases Versatile & resourceful: Natural ability to switch between coding, DevOps, product thinking, communicating and testing Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication Fintech experience: Knowledge of financial transaction flows or banking technology Strong problem-solver and ownership: Embrace complexity, finding elegant solutions for large-scale, regulated systems and owning outcomes Customer-focused: Driven to understand and solve real customer problems Security mindset: Understanding of secure coding practices and experience with high compliance systems Nice to haves Compliance: Familiarity with PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, or similar frameworks Why join us? Massive impact: Transform how the world’s largest banks innovate (e.g., supporting digital assets) and handle billions of dollars daily—on a truly open platform Growth: The opportunity to build foundational components from zero to production High-caliber team: Join a small team of exceptional growth, product, and engineering colleagues who value both speed and stability AI-native workspace: Experience an AI-first environment with LLMs integrated into every tool