SeniorStaff Software Engineer, Product
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Senior/Staff Software Engineer Product
Location: San Francisco CA (Onsite 5 Days/Week)
Company Stage of Funding: Series C Fintech AI Crypto Infrastructure
Office Type: In-Person (Downtown SF)
Salary: $200000 $350000 Base
Equity: Competitive Equity Package
Bonus: Competitive Total Compensation
Visa: Sponsorship Available
Company Description
Our client is building the future of business banking by combining modern financial infrastructure AI-native workflows and global payment rails.
The company powers more than $10B annually in transaction volume and has scaled to $300M ARR while maintaining an engineering team of only 12 engineers.
Founded in 2021 the company recently raised a $100M Series C led by leading investors including Ribbit Capital Khosla Ventures NEA Goodwater Capital and Y Combinator.
The platform serves thousands of businesses and provides:
- Business Banking Infrastructure
- Payments & Transfers
- Invoicing Systems
- Bill Pay & Expense Management
- Virtual Cards
- Accounting Integrations
- AI-Powered Financial Assistants
- Stablecoin & Global Banking Infrastructure
- Treasury & Cash Management
- Financial Operations Automation
Engineering challenges include:
- Building fault-tolerant financial systems
- Designing scalable payments infrastructure
- High-volume transaction processing
- Financial compliance systems
- Full-stack product development
- Distributed systems
- AI-powered financial workflows
- Global crypto payment rails
- Enterprise-grade reliability
- Customer-facing fintech products
The company sits in a rare position where engineers maintain startup ownership while operating at significant scale.
The culture values:
- Exceptional builders
- Founder mentality
- Ownership
- Speed
- Product craftsmanship
- Technical excellence
- Learning velocity
- High accountability
- End-to-end execution
What You Will Do
- Build and ship entire product surfaces end-to-end
- Design database schemas and backend architectures
- Build customer-facing financial products
- Design APIs and backend services
- Develop payment transfer invoicing and card systems
- Build full-stack applications across frontend and backend systems
- Work directly with product design and compliance teams
- Own features from concept through deployment
- Design and scale core financial infrastructure
- Build highly reliable fintech systems
- Contribute to architecture and engineering standards
- Create observability monitoring and operational tooling
- Participate in system design and technical reviews
- Drive technical decisions across product initiatives
- Build AI-powered financial workflows
- Develop global banking and payments capabilities
- Mentor engineers and elevate engineering quality
- Operate with founder-level ownership
- Build products directly impacting company revenue
Ideal Candidate Background
- 215 years of software engineering experience
- Exceptional individual contributor
- Strong full-stack engineering background
- Experience shipping products end-to-end
- Experience building customer-facing applications
- Startup experience preferred
- Strong product ownership mentality
- Experience designing APIs and backend systems
- Experience building scalable software products
- Strong frontend and backend engineering skills
- Experience with PostgreSQL
- Experience with React and modern web applications
- Experience working closely with customers or product teams
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to operate in highly ambiguous environments
- Strong technical judgment
- Ability to move quickly while maintaining quality
- CS or STEM degree from a top university preferred
Strong Signals
Founder / Builder Signals
- Founder experience
- Startup founder with meaningful users/revenue
- Founding engineer experience
- Built side businesses or products
- Demonstrated entrepreneurial history
- Started coding at an early age
- Revenue-generating projects
Engineering Signals
- End-to-end product ownership
- Strong product engineering mindset
- Experience owning entire product surfaces
- Full-stack expertise
- High technical bar
- Rapid promotions
- Technical leadership without moving into management
Startup Signals
- Early employee at successful startup
- Series AC startup experience
- High-growth startup experience
- Experience operating on small teams
- Ownership of major business outcomes
- Demonstrated hustle and resourcefulness
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: $200000 $350000
- Competitive Equity Package
- Visa Sponsorship Available
- Opportunity to join a $1.4B company
- Significant ownership and autonomy
- Direct collaboration with founders
- High-impact engineering culture
- Annual company offsites
- Strong product-market fit
- Rapid company growth
- Opportunity to shape the future of financial infrastructure
- Small engineering team with outsized impact
Why Join
This is a rare opportunity to join a company that has already achieved substantial scale while maintaining the ownership and speed of an early-stage startup.
Most engineers spend their careers optimizing a small part of a product. Here engineers own entire business-critical systems from database schema to customer experience.
Youll work on:
- Financial infrastructure
- Payments
- Banking products
- AI-native workflows
- Stablecoin infrastructure
- Global financial systems
while collaborating with some of the highest-performing engineers in the startup ecosystem.
If you enjoy building products from scratch owning systems end-to-end and operating with founder-level responsibility this role offers exceptional scope and career upside.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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