Software Engineer - Core Financial Platform ($180K-$275K + Equity) at Basic Capital

About the role

Basic Capital is a $25M Series A fintech based in SoHo, NYC, backed by Lux Capital and Forerunner Ventures. They are rebuilding the infrastructure of America’s $1T retirement industry, creating a fundamentally new retirement system powered by a team of elite engineers from Stripe, Uber, and Goldman Sachs.

As a Software Engineer on the Core Financial Platform team, you will design and build the high-reliability systems responsible for moving money at scale. You will architect event-driven workflows, design reconciliation logic, and own the infrastructure for trading and fund management, ensuring the transparency and reliability that modern retirement investing requires.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build core trading, financing, and fund management systems that orchestrate and reconcile complex flows of funds with high reliability.
• Design and implement event-driven backend systems and asynchronous workflows using tools like Kotlin, Temporal, and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in high-level architecture discussions and code reviews, maintaining complete ownership of mission-critical transaction systems from design to production.

Requirements

• Has 3+ years of experience building distributed, high-reliability backend systems and event-driven architectures using languages like Kotlin, Go, or Rust.
• Demonstrates strong expertise in relational databases like PostgreSQL/MySQL and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP), with a focus on correctness and system reliability.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-agency environment and is excited to work in-office in SoHo to solve complex social and financial problems.

Benefits

• Work directly with an elite team of senior engineers who have built mission-critical financial systems at scale for companies like Stripe, Square, and Uber.
• Tackle deep technical challenges by rebuilding retirement infrastructure from the ground up, replacing decades-old legacy systems with modern, transparent, event-driven architectures.
• Join a high-impact, $25M Series A startup backed by top-tier investors like Lux Capital, Forerunner Ventures, and Henry Kravis in a high-performance SoHo office.

Pay

The salary for this role is $180k-$275k + Equity.

Location

New York, USA