7 months ago
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate identity and access management services covering authentication flows, sessions, device trust, authorization, entitlements, roles, permissions, and policies.
- Develop security controls such as MFA and key management in partnership with security teams.
- Own transfers, payments orchestration, ledgering, reconciliation flows, limits, risk controls, and transactional correctness.
- Build and maintain blockchain infrastructure, including node and RPC management, transaction submission, monitoring, retry logic, and on-chain data indexing and streaming.
- Define and uphold reliability and observability standards, including SLOs, error budgets, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and incident management practices.
- Lead cross-functional technical projects from design through rollout with Product, Security, and Operations.
- Mentor and guide engineers and contribute to engineering standards, design reviews, and documentation.
- Stay current with industry practices in authentication, key management, and secure crypto and trading infrastructure.
Requirements
- 5–12+ years of backend, product, or platform engineering experience, including high-scale and high-availability systems in fintech, crypto, or similar domains.
- Deep expertise in at least one of identity and access or security engineering, financial systems or ledgering and payments, or blockchain infrastructure and on-chain data.
- Strong experience designing and operating distributed systems involving datastores, queues, streaming, and background workers.
- Track record of driving architecture decisions through implementation and adoption.
- Strong operational experience with monitoring, on-call, incident response, and postmortems.
- Excellent collaboration skills with Product, Security, and Operations.
- Experience with Flutter, React Native, React, or Headless CRMs is a plus.
- Experience with Go, Rust, or Solana is a plus.
- Experience with Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services is a plus.
- Experience with crypto wallets, exchanges, or on-chain protocols such as DeFi, L2s, or ZK is a plus.
- Exposure to data warehousing and analytics for financial reporting is a plus.
- Contributions to open-source projects are a plus.
Benefits
- Full-time role, preferably located in NYC, with remote work available for the right candidate.
- Remote-friendly within the United States and Canada with periodic in-person sprints and approximately one week of travel per quarter.
- 5% 401(k) match.
- Health benefits with employer-covered premiums and life insurance coverage.
- One-time office setup stipend.
- Flexible PTO.
- Meaningful equity.