Staff Backend Engineer

Job Description

New York City (4 days onsite)

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Up to $325k base + equity

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We're working with a fast-growing fintech infrastructure startup building the technology that enables seamless money movement between traditional finance and crypto.

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They're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to take technical ownership of core infrastructure powering payments, settlement and transaction routing across multiple blockchains and payment providers.

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This is a hands-on senior IC role with significant influence over architecture, technical direction and engineering standards.

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You'll be responsible for

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• Architecting and building high-performance, low-latency backend systems
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• Designing scalable APIs and distributed services for payments and transaction processing
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• Solving complex engineering challenges around transaction routing, settlement, security and reliability
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• Driving technical decisions and setting engineering standards across the backend
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• Working closely with product and engineering teams to design and deliver new infrastructure
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• Mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership without direct management responsibilities
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What they're looking for

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• Extensive experience building and scaling production backend systems
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• Strong TypeScript proficiency
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• Deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, databases and cloud infrastructure
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• Proven experience owning complex technical architecture and driving engineering decisions
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• Strong track record of delivering reliable, high-performance systems at scale
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• Previous experience operating at Staff level or equivalent technical scope
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• Comfortable working hands-on in a fast-moving startup environment
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Bonus points for experience with payments infrastructure, financial systems, blockchain integrations or event-driven architectures.

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Crypto experience is not essential, but experience building complex, high-availability infrastructure is.

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If you're a senior backend engineer who enjoys solving difficult technical problems, owning architecture and building infrastructure from the ground up, I'd love to chat.