Backend Engineer - Card Transaction Processing

ether.fi; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based incentives

Health, dental, and vision insurance

4 weeks work from anywhere

Team-building events

Job summary

A leading crypto company is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer in New York. The role focuses on core backend architecture and card transaction processing, with responsibilities for optimizing transaction processing services and improving cloud infrastructure. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience in software engineering and the ability to tackle challenges in user transaction frictions. This position offers a competitive salary package and extensive benefits, including health insurance and opportunities for travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional coding experience.
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions.

Responsibilities

• Own core areas of backend systems and improve throughput and latency.
• Design and optimize scalable transaction processing services.
• Drive improvements in Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Problem solving

Product shipping

Experience with Paymentology

Experience in card issuance

Job description

Location

New York; Cayman; Denver

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Compensation

• US / Cayman: $170K – $200K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus

We pay based on experience, using internal benchmarking to ensure that all employees are paid competitively and equitably.

About us

Ether.fi is one of the largest crypto companies in the world. We have over $10B in assets under management and a team of 30 almost all technical staff. We’ve been profitable day one and are focusing on building real consumer applications.

The future we envisage is true on-chain banking. Our current products; Stake, Liquid, and Cash enable users to earn yield in a variety of DeFi strategies, and spend their assets in the real world with our credit cards. You can view public analytics on Dune for Cash and Stake.

Position overview

We’re looking for a senior full backend software engineer to own core backend architecture, card transaction processing and high availability. You will belong to a key engineering team focusing on delivering distributed, scalable and robust backend systems. Everything from card transaction processing, low latency APIs, microservice architectures and on-chain data indexing. Anything that a neobank would build is on our roadmap.

What you’ll do

• Own core areas of our backend systems, and extend current functionality to improve throughput and latency
• Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions.
• Tackle the challenges in user frictions for their card transactions being declined
• Drive improvements in our Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems.

What we are looking for

• Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving
• You have shipped impressive products with thousands of real users
• 5+ years of professional coding experience
• Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality
• Plus if you are experienced in credit card transaction processor such as Paymentology, Episode 6, etc.
• Plus if you are experienced in card issuing side

Perks and benefits

• Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant
• Opportunity to work on multi-billion dollar products as part of a small team
• Health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world
• 4 weeks work from anywhere
• Exciting company events and team-building off-sites

Compensation Range: $170K - $200K