10 months ago
Remote, United States or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$125k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain core backend services powering global payments and account experiences.
- Own key systems end to end, including data models, APIs, deployment, and ongoing operations.
- Integrate with payment processors, on- and off-ramps, banks, compliance providers, and identity providers.
- Monitor, tune, and scale backend services while maintaining high availability and performance.
- Define backend engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns.
- Build internal tools and automation that improve developer productivity and system reliability.
- Set and guide backend architectural direction with attention to business impact and scalability.
- Review code, share knowledge, and mentor other engineers.
- Own the cloud infrastructure setup and deployment workflows in partnership with the engineering team.
Requirements
- Deep experience with TypeScript and Node.js, with some exposure to Rust beneficial.
- Strong experience designing and building scalable distributed backend systems.
- Demonstrated ownership of critical backend infrastructure and impactful architectural decisions.
- Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience building highly available systems with robust monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- History of creating clean, well-documented APIs and integrating complex external systems.
- Ability to collaborate in a small, fast-moving team, mentor others, and communicate with technical and non-technical partners.
- Early-stage startup experience, technical strategy leadership, and payments, fintech, cryptocurrency, stablecoin, or settlement-system experience are bonus qualifications.
- Experience with Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, or Temporal is a bonus qualification.
About Fin
Fin builds a payments platform for high-value, global, instant transactions, powered by stablecoins. It serves businesses and individuals moving large sums, enabling transfers to other Fin users, bank accounts, or across crypto rails; revenue comes from payment fees. The privately held company is headquartered in New York and is Series A–stage, with backing from Sequoia and Circle.