The role requires candidates to be based within a commutable distance to San Francisco, as the client has a 5 days office policy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and build a proprietary financial ledgering system from the ground up
- Own core payments and money movement infrastructure with a focus on correctness, auditability, and scalability
- Architect and evolve systems that handle high transaction volumes with strict consistency guarantees
- Make foundational decisions around data models, reconciliation, and system boundaries
- Work closely with product and platform engineers while owning the financial core end to end
- Operate with a strong sense of engineering rigor around edge cases, failure modes, and financial correctness
Desirable Requirements:
- Strong background in Payments is essential (ACH/Wire experience is important for this role, as you will be building these rails)
- Experience with working in a start-up is important for this role – proven experience with building from 0 -> 1
- Expertise with Golang or Rust would be a plus for this role (high-throughput systems expertise)
- Experience with working in the FinTech space would be a plus
- 3 years of experience working in software engineering
The role offers long-term earning potential with a strong compensation package, including industry-leading equity
