SeniorStaff Engineer

Company: Dots
Location: New York NY or San Francisco CA
Compensation: $200000 - $.4% - 0.8% equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B O-1 OPT

Dots is building global payments infrastructure for the future of work moving about $1.5B a year to more than 1 million payees. Revenue grew 400% in the past year and the company reached profitability in 2025.

Dots (Y Combinator S21) raised an $8.9M Series A led by DCM bringing total funding to $14.8M. It has offices in New York (8th Ave) and San Francisco (Mariposa St).

Dots is looking for senior and staff engineers who take risks iterate and want a say in every decision. You will design and build scalable production-ready systems that move money at high throughput set a high bar and help drive the companys vision to change how money moves.

• Design and build scalable backend systems for high-throughput money movement.
• Move fast and build pragmatic systems then iterate on them.
• Work with large volumes of data.
• Launch and iterate on applications and large software projects.

• 7 years designing and building scalable production-ready systems
• Experience with large data volumes and high-throughput backend design
• A track record of launching and iterating on apps or large software projects
• Comfort moving fast in an ambiguous environment

• FinTech or finance experience
• AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure experience
• Python and React at scale

Private medical insurance including dental and vision unlimited vacation regular team off-sites and a 401(k).

React frontend; Python backend; AWS ECS; GitHub Linear Slack Notion

REVENUE: 14.2% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $28K-$40K; 4 seat(s) up to $136K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Stripe Plaid Brex Ramp Deel Payoneer Tipalti.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 7 (listing says 6) yrs; scalable high-throughput backend; shipped large projects; visa: H-1B O-1 OPT; location: NYC or SF office.