Backend Engineer - Card Transaction Processing

Ether; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based incentives

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Global travel opportunities

4 weeks work from anywhere

Exciting company events

Job summary

A leading crypto company based in New York is seeking a senior backend software engineer to enhance core backend architecture and scale transaction processing services. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of coding experience, a strong foundation in software engineering, and the ability to tackle product challenges. This role comes with competitive salary, performance incentives, health benefits, and the chance to work on groundbreaking financial products as part of a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional coding experience.
• Strong fundamentals in software engineering.
• Experience shipping products with thousands of users.

Responsibilities

• Own core areas of backend systems.
• Design and optimize scalable transaction processing services.
• Improve Cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Software engineering fundamentals

Problem solving

Experience with credit card transaction processors

Experience in card issuing

Job description

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 throughout 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 experience 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