Dragonfly

Founding Payments Engineer - Dragonfly Portfolio

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3 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$150k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build the payment orchestration engine and double-entry ledger serving as the system of record for transfers, conversions, and settlements.
  • Integrate with sponsor banks and payment rails including ACH, wires, RTP, and FedNow, including FBO account structures.
  • Integrate with stablecoin issuer APIs, liquidity providers, and OTC desks.
  • Own reconciliation across bank statements, issuer balances, onchain state, and the ledger.
  • Build durable platform capabilities and APIs for returns, reversals, partial fills, delayed settlement, and other payment-state problems.
  • Translate regulatory requirements into system design in partnership with compliance, operations, and finance.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response for live money movement.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating production payments systems that moved real money, such as ledgers, payment engines, or bank integrations, including on-call incident response.
  • Exceptionally strong backend engineering skills in data modeling, transactional guarantees, concurrency, and distributed-system failure modes.
  • Deep understanding of ACH returns, wire cutoffs, RTP and FedNow settlement, FBO accounts, and pending versus settled balances.
  • A security-minded approach to engineering.
  • Relevant experience in Solana, smart contracts, or crypto infrastructure is also encouraged.

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity is offered.
  • Primary location is NYC; exceptional candidates in San Francisco or remote across the USA may be considered.
  • The opportunity is sourced through Dragonfly’s talent network and may lead to a confidential introduction to an aligned portfolio company rather than an internal Dragonfly role.

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About Dragonfly

51-200 employees

DragonFly (dragonflymax.com) builds a cloud platform used by K–12 and scholastic athletic programs to manage eligibility, digital forms, compliance workflows, rosters, scheduling, communications, and payments. It provides athletic trainers tools for documenting injuries and care, and gives administrators centralized oversight across teams and seasons. The company sells its software as a subscription to schools, districts, and state associations, with integrated services for collections and reporting.

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