Staff Engineer

Are you a builder problem solver systems thinker

Were looking for people who like hard missions who can step into complex systems figure out whats actually going on and make them work at scale.

Performativ is rebuilding core infrastructure for wealth management. The problems are real: data consistency distributed systems performance under load and workflows that need to hold up across millions of client interactions.

You wont be given a neatly scoped area. Youll be expected to move to where things break where things slow down or where things dont scale and fix them.

Youll also be expected to rethink how we build. We are actively using AI and agent-based tooling driving our development workflows and we expect you to push this further in a way that increases speed without losing control.

What Youll Do

• Take on the hardest technical problems across the platform and drive them to resolution

• Move across teams and systems to improve scalability performance and reliability

• Design and evolve distributed systems operating at million-client scale

• Find weak points early and fix them before they turn into incidents

• Write production-grade code in the parts of the system that matter most

• Turn unclear situations into concrete solutions that ship

• Introduce better ways of working including pragmatic use of agent-assisted workflows where they add real leverage

• Challenge technical decisions and push for simpler more robust solutions

• Raise the bar for engineering quality through your actions not process

• Help teams move faster by removing friction and unnecessary complexity

What Were Looking For

Professional Experience & Skills:

• Youve built systems that run in production at scale and you understand what breaks

• You have strong intuition for distributed systems cloud infrastructure and tradeoffs

• Experience in fintech wealth management or other regulated environments is a plus not a requirement

• You dont need everything defined upfront you can operate in ambiguity and still deliver

• You are hands-on and comfortable writing code in critical paths

• Youve influenced technical direction across teams through credibility not authority

• Youre strong at debugging and getting to root causes quickly

• You focus on what works not what looks good on paper

• You use AI and agent-based tools to move faster but you stay accountable for the outcome

• You communicate clearly and dont hide behind jargon

• You take ownership and finish what you start

What we can offer you

Impact: Work on the problems that define whether we scale or not
Environment: Fast-moving fintech scaleup backed by top-tier VCs
Team: High-calibre people with extensive building experience.
Growth: Real responsibility and room to expand your scope
Compensation: Competitive salary and equity

Join a Team of Fintech builders

Performativ is building the infrastructure that investment advisors and financial institutions rely on.

Were scaling fast and expectations are high.

We value passion

Were builders.

We care about people who take ownership move fast and do things properly.

If you need structure this isnt the place.

If you like figuring things out and making them work youll do well here.