Staff Software Engineer

Who We Are

At Cross River were building the financial infrastructure that powers global innovation. With our cutting-edge suite of embedded payments cards and lending solutions we enable millions of businesses and consumers to transact seamlessly and securely.

With 900 employees worldwide and an R&D center of over 160 employees in Jerusalem - were reshaping how financial technology is developed and delivered.

Staff Software Engineer is our most senior individual-contributor role. You report to a VP of Engineering and act as the technical force multiplier across the several teams that VP owns through their Engineering Managers. Engineering Managers own people and delivery. You own the technical bar.

You turn strategy into architecture make the hard design and build-versus-buy calls and keep decisions coherent across every team under the VP. You work in three modes: lead technical direction help unblock and grow teams and build the highest-risk pieces yourself. Hands-on. Not a manager. Your leverage is architecture code and the engineers you make better.

• Partner with the VP to translate business goals into cross-team technical strategy and clear architecture.
• Own the hard technical decisions: system design service boundaries data models stack choices and the tradeoffs behind them.
• Define the standards teams build against: coding testing security observability operational readiness.
• Drive alignment across Engineering Managers and their teams so independent decisions hold up at the platform level.
• Unblock teams on the hard problems: scale latency reliability thorny integrations production incidents.
• Take initiative without being asked: spot gaps propose the fix and drive it across teams before it becomes a problem.
• Actively grow and mentor engineers. Invest in their technical development coach through hard problems and build the next tier of senior talent.
• Prototype and ship the highest-leverage highest-risk code yourself so teams inherit a proven path.
• Set the bar for quality security and compliance in a regulated real-time financial environment.

• Flexible hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office A must
• 1000 net monthly wellness benefit from therapy to Pilates to your kids art class
• Full Keren Hishtalmut private health & dental insurance
• Donation matching volunteering days team outings and mentorship programs
• A mission-driven culture that values ownership trust and meaningful impact

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Requirements:

What You Bring to the Table

• 8 years building and operating production software with real depth in distributed backend systems at scale.
• Track record leading technically across multiple teams without formal authority. You lead through clarity and credibility.
• Strong system design: you reason clearly about scale reliability latency cost and security tradeoffs.
• Deep in a primary backend stack (.NET / C# preferred) and able to go deep in others ( etc.).
• Fluency with cloud data at scale real-time and streaming systems modern CI/CD and observability.
• Strong security and compliance instincts. Financial or regulated-domain experience a plus.
• Clear technical writer. You align engineers and managers around a decision.
• Self-starter. You see what needs doing and move on it without waiting for direction.
• Genuine drive to develop others. You measure your impact partly by how much the engineers around you grow.
• Still hands-on. You write code and want to.