Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

The Infrastructure Engineer will design and manage the financial infrastructure for a startup focused on providing families with access to state education funds. The role involves designing money movement flows, ensuring reliable reconciliation, minimizing operational risk, and maintaining ledger integrity.

Responsibilities

• Design a money movement flow: ledgered internal state, transaction lifecycle management, idempotency, retries, and deterministic replay
• Build high-trust, reliable reconciliation: daily/continuous reconciliation between internal ledger, card network events, banking events, and vendor/provider reports
• Minimize operational risk: build guardrails that prevent bad states (double-spend, duplicate webhook processing, inconsistent balances, orphaned settlements)
• Own and evolve a multi-service monorepo spanning an event-driven pipeline, a payments API (onboarding, credit, cards), balance healthchecks, and regulatory reporting jobs
• Lead ledger integrity reconciliation: keep independent ledgers aligned at all times despite asynchronous event processing

Requirements

• Obsessive about correctness: able to spot discrepancies before they become problems
• Absorbs the real world's unreliability: builds systems that remain predictable even in challenging conditions
• Craves ownership: wants to be the person everyone trusts when money is moving
• High-auditability mindset: willing to trace transactions through the stack to find issues quickly
• Able to work in-person with the team in San Francisco, CA or Phoenix, AZ (visa support available)

Skills

• Experience with Lithic, Column, LoanPro, Stripe Issuing, or comparable card and banking infrastructure is a strong plus

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: $125,000 - $175,000 per year, commensurate with experience
• Generous Founding Equity
• Top-Tier Backing: $16M from top-tier VCs and angels
• Relocation Support: willing to relocate to San Francisco, CA, or Phoenix, AZ, and travel to visit customers
• Comprehensive Visa Sponsorship
• Unmatched Impact: shaping the future of the $900B US Public Education budget