Backend Engineer

Backend Software Engineer - Digital Money & Global Payments

Location: New York (Hybrid)

Compensation: $150K - $200K

We are a lean and mighty team of passionate builders and veteran founders backed by top investors in fintech and crypto. Our mission is to empower the next generation of money and financial products globally. We are seeking a Backend Software Engineer to join us at the cutting edge intersection of real-world payments and digital money where you will deliver massive impact at a small quickly growing company.

You will be a critical part of defining our technical and product roadmap operating within an open and flat structure where you have the freedom to explore ideas and influence the companys vision. You will focus on scaling our infrastructure to handle millions of end-users globally while driving key architectural decisions for our rapidly evolving product.

What Youll Do:

• Core Development: Contribute directly to our backend and integrate a variety of complex third-party services.
• Scalability: Rapidly ship new capabilities to customers and scale our infrastructure to support millions of end-users globally.
• Architecture: Help drive critical architectural decisions for our rapidly evolving product stack.
• Blockchain Integration: Interact with smart contracts across multiple chains to bridge real-world payments and digital money.

• Technical Proficiency: Demonstrated experience with and other backend technologies.
• Builder Mentality: A strong desire to build and experiment evidenced by involvement in side projects or a history of rapid execution.
• Domain Interest: A genuine interest in the crypto space (either crypto maxi or crypto curious).

Nice-to-Haves (But Not Mandatory):

• Fintech Experience: Prior experience in the fintech sector (neobank or card issuing experience is a plus).
• Smart Contracts: Direct experience working with smart contracts.

• Equity Plan: On top of a competitive salary ($150K - $200K) we offer every employee an equity option plan so we all benefit from our success.
• Flexible Working: We support a flexible workplacework from home or in the office depending on where you are most productive.
• Time Off: Unlimited time off with a required 10-day minimum for personal rejuvenation.
• Health & Wellness:
• Flexible Benefits: Easy-to-access comprehensive health dental and vision plans (company pays a percentage for the employee and dependents for US-based employees).
• Wellness Spending: Company card usage for eligible health and wellness spending (e.g. gym memberships fitness classes).
• Life Insurance: 100% company-subsidized life insurance plan.
• Product Exposure: Issued cards to utilize and test our core products and services.
• Team Summits: Regular company summits to strengthen relationships and collaboration across the global team (stay tuned for upcoming destinations!).

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