Senior Backend Engineer | Founding Team

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a pioneering team dedicated to revolutionizing financial inclusivity through innovative technology. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in developing scalable backend systems that connect blockchain and fintech in groundbreaking ways. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside industry veterans from top companies, drive meaningful change, and contribute to a product that empowers users with financial independence. With competitive salaries and equity options, this role promises an exciting and impactful career path in a rapidly evolving market.

Benefits

Equity Options

Competitive Salaries

Unique Work Experience

Qualifications

• Senior/staff engineering experience in backend systems.
• Focus on scalable and resilient system design.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop core backend systems for product.
• Integrate systems for first customers, managing deployment.

Skills

Backend Development

Scalable Systems

Blockchain Integration

Proactive Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science

Master's in Engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Founding Team: Senior Backend Engineer

Our mission is to grow financial inclusivity and efficiency. Concretely, we issue stablecoin-powered debit cards, so that card payments work the way they should:

• Merchants receive payment instantly - rather than multiple days later.
• End users can pay with currencies or their choice, held in their own custody.
• This is a big deal in developing markets such as LatAm where users want to shield themselves from local currency inflation, but are restricted by their local banking systems.

Why Join:

• Founding Team: Join our early stage, engineer-driven team of former Meta, Binance, Mastercard veterans. You can expect to have broad technical responsibility, and receive unfiltered access to business operations & decisions.
• Achievements: In just a year, we’ve synchronized blockchain and card payments on both the technical and regulatory levels, launching our first live debit card with one of the biggest crypto wallets (Argent). We’ve raised $3m with top Fintech & Blockchain VCs, and are on path to operate globally where we are needed most.
• Social Impact: Our product fosters financial equality by providing stable, secure access to essential financial services, retaining full control of assets by end users.
• Market Disruption: We enable near-instant payments, eliminating delays and costs that affect merchants and consumers alike.

What You’ll Do:

• ️Build the foundation: Help define and develop the core backend systems that will underpin our product, connecting blockchain and fintech systems in novel ways.
• Innovate: We operate a debit card for third-party non-custodial wallets. This has never been done before. You’ll be solving new problems, not rehashing existing solutions in a different form.
• Work with customers: Get your hands dirty integrating our system for our first customers, seeing a full sales and deployment cycle.

Reward for Impact:

• Meaningful equity & competitive cash salaries
• Unique work experience you won’t get elsewhere

What We’re Looking For:

• Technical expertise: Senior/staff engineering experience with a focus on creating scalable, resilient backend systems.
• Proactive mindset: Sometimes we look for a long term solution, and sometimes a quick fix. You should have a “Can do” approach that identifies all options and makes the right call.
• Excited by impact: Create a real change in the world that unleashes economic potential.