1 month ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction for ledgers, payouts, reconciliation, and settlement within the banking core.
- Lead architecture reviews for new financial systems and high-risk changes where correctness and auditability are critical.
- Define standards for money-handling code, including idempotency, consistency guarantees, audit trails, and safe data migrations.
- Design and build shared banking foundations while reducing systemic technical debt.
- Own reliability and observability for money flows and lead critical incident response.
- Mentor senior engineers, contribute to hiring standards, and lead cross-functional initiatives without formal authority.
- Partner with product, finance, compliance, and risk teams to communicate technical trade-offs.
Requirements
- Significant experience as a senior or staff-level backend engineer owning complex production systems.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems and understanding of reliability, performance, and scalability trade-offs.
- Sound judgment about correctness under failure, including retries, idempotency, and safe handling of critical data.
- Strong technical communication and cross-team leadership skills.
- Fluency in a modern TypeScript and Node backend stack and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with production double-entry ledgers, payout or payment systems, durable workflow engines, strong observability practices, or fintech and financial-services regulatory complexity is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Equity in a rapidly growing company.
- Opportunity to work on global financial infrastructure at a fast-paced fintech startup.
- Collaborative culture emphasizing personal and professional growth.
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