Staff Software Engineer — Backend

Set technical direction for cross-cutting backend platform infrastructure, including durable workflow orchestration, transaction ordering, concurrency control, shared service primitives, and reliability standards. Design multi-service systems, establish tooling and deployment practices, align engineering teams, and identify architectural risks before incidents occur.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for backend platform infrastructure
• Design systems spanning multiple services
• Establish cross-service reliability standards
• Build shared tooling, templates, CI patterns, service scaffolding, and observability conventions
• Align engineering teams on shared technical direction
• Represent backend platform engineering in technical planning
• Identify architectural risks before they cause incidents

Requirements

• 8–10+ years of backend software engineering experience
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple services or teams
• Expertise in durable workflow or orchestration systems, distributed transaction ordering, or data-consistency guarantees
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript
• Production experience with Effect or a comparable functional effect system preferred
• Experience designing reusable shared platform components
• Experience driving cross-team technical alignment without formal authority
• Knowledge of idempotency, at-least-once delivery, crash recovery, and reconciliation
• Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated financial infrastructure preferred
• Experience with blockchain or custody-adjacent transaction systems preferred
• Experience building internal platform tooling or organization-wide standards preferred

Benefits

• Equity
• Full medical benefits
• Vision benefits
• Dental benefits
• 401(k) with matching program
• Flexible vacation policy (PTO)
• Remote-first work environment