Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

The Senior Full Backend Software Engineer will be responsible for owning core backend architecture, card transaction processing, and ensuring high availability. They will lead a key engineering team focused on delivering distributed, scalable, and robust backend systems. This includes card transaction processing, low-latency APIs, microservice architectures, and on-chain data indexing.

Responsibilities

• Own core areas of our backend systems and extend current functionality to improve throughput and reduce latency
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions
• Tackle user friction issues related to card transactions being declined
• Drive improvements in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems

Requirements

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem-solving
• Experience shipping impressive products with thousands of real users
• 5+ years of professional coding experience
• Drive and willingness to work hard and go the extra mile

Qualifications

• Experience with credit card transaction processors such as Paymentology, Episode 6, etc. is a plus

Skills

• Experience with microservices and distributed systems
• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambitious environment

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
• Token allocation grant
• Opportunity to work on multi-billion dollar products as part of a small team
• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Global team with opportunities for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world
• Exciting company events and team-building off-sites

Pay

$170K - $200K

Schedule

Full-time