Sr. Staff Engineer - Digital Assets

2 hours ago

Tokyo, JapanStaff+

Base Salary

$175k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

Lead technical strategy and architecture for complex cross-border and digital asset payment capabilities across multiple engineering teams.
Own architectural design and technical patterns for cross-border money movement and digital asset settlement systems.
Resolve technical, scalability, reliability, and production issues across distributed and regulated payment platforms.
Drive technical architecture, design, prototyping, implementation, testing, and long-term health for products and systems.
Review and validate code output, establish department-wide engineering patterns, and resolve technical conflicts across teams.
Mentor engineers, guide teams, and represent engineering in cross-functional sessions with product managers, designers, and other engineering groups.
Lead a broad functional area, support planning, and influence engineering standards, tooling, and processes.
Develop tests to ensure application quality, performance, and scalability.
Support risk management and protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant experience.
At least 12 years of relevant experience, including at least 9 years developing distributed systems, SaaS, cloud solutions, or microservices.
At least 8 years of experience with Java and Spring.
At least 2 years of experience developing frontend solutions, with familiarity with Angular or React.
Hands-on Docker experience and proficiency with Maven or Gradle.
Experience leading the design and evolution of complex, large-scale payment or cross-border transaction platforms in regulated environments.
Deep technical understanding of digital asset or stablecoin-based systems, including security, scalability, and operational reliability.
Experience delivering business-critical systems, designing scalable systems, and working with event-driven architecture and messaging frameworks.
Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
Knowledge of testing, secure coding, software development lifecycle practices, development methodologies, and DevOps practices.
Preferred qualifications include an MS or PhD, JavaScript and scripting framework experience, monitoring and alerting experience, additional programming languages, ACH/EFT and real-time payment knowledge, FinTech experience, and Kubernetes experience.
Successful candidates must complete a background and drug screen and be independently eligible to work in the United States.

Hybrid work model for positions in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus HSA and FSA options.
401(k) plan with a 100% company safe harbor match on the first 6% deferred, immediately upon eligibility.
Flexible time off for exempt employees or generous PTO for non-exempt employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
Twelve weeks of paid parental leave.
Maven Family Planning support for fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, and related needs.

1,001-5,000 employees