Senior Software Engineer
240k – 270kNew York, NYBackend EngineeringHybrid5+ YOE
Summary
Senior Software Engineer building core infrastructure for a stablecoin platform handling custody, transfers, issuance, and compliance workflows. Own services end-to-end in a hybrid NYC office with Go, TypeScript, Kubernetes, and AWS.
About the role
Work to Be Done
First 30 days: Learn the rails, ship confidently
- Ramp on service architecture, CI/CD, observability, and engineering conventions
- Ship a small feature slice or quality-of-life improvement in one service
- Add tests, dashboards, or runbook notes for the areas you touch
- Build relationships with your vertical team and cross-functional partners
By 90 days: Own a service surface and raise the bar
- Take ownership of a service or capability across our product, with an eye toward production-readiness
- Lead a medium-scope project: updating an API contract, implementing a partner integration, or improving robustness of a critical path
- Strengthen reliability with better logging, tracing, alerts, and failure handling
By 180 days: Drive cross-service impact
- Lead a cross-service initiative, such as an API versioning plan, a data model migration, or a compliance-driven workflow change
- Shape technical direction with design docs and mentoring
- Partner with product and compliance to make pragmatic, regulation-aware tradeoffs
Challenges You Might Tackle
- Designing stable, evolvable APIs for custody, transfers, or issuance without breaking downstream clients
- Building idempotent job flows for high-throughput transfers with strong audit trails
- Hardening key operations using hardware-backed isolation and robust key policies
- Improving p95 latency through query tuning, caching, or backpressure strategies
- Navigating tradeoffs between product velocity and compliance requirements in a regulated environment
- Building services that integrate with banking partners and crypto infrastructure providers
Your Team's Typical Stack
- Languages: Go and TypeScript/Node.js; some services in Rust as needed
- Service patterns: gRPC and REST; GraphQL/tRPC at the edge for frontend BFFs
- Data and async processing: Postgres, Redis, Kafka
- Workflow Management: Temporal
- Infra: AWS, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform; hardware-backed key isolation with Nitro Enclaves for sensitive operations
- Observability and ops: Datadog, Grafana, Sentry, Incident.io
Skills
GoTypeScriptNode.jsRustgRPCRESTGraphQLPostgreSQLRedisKafkaTemporalAWSKubernetesTerraformDatadog
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