FinTech Core Platform Engineer – High‑Reliability Backend (Equity)

Jack & Jill; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Basic Capital in New York is seeking a Software Engineer for the Core Financial Platform to design and build high‑reliability systems that move money at scale. You will architect event‑driven workflows and own the infrastructure for trading and fund management.

The role emphasizes ownership from design to production, with Kotlin, Temporal, and modern cloud tech. You’ll join a senior engineer team in SoHo to solve challenging retirement‑tech problems.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience building distributed, high‑reliability backend systems.
• Experience with Kotlin, Go, or Rust and event‑driven architectures.
• Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL/MySQL and cloud infra (AWS/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Architect and build core trading, financing, and fund management systems with high reliability.
• Design and implement event‑driven backend systems and asynchronous workflows using Kotlin, Temporal, and cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in architecture discussions and code reviews from design to production.

Job description

Basic Capital in New York is seeking a Software Engineer for the Core Financial Platform to design and build high‑reliability systems that move money at scale. You will architect event‑driven workflows and own the infrastructure for trading and fund management.

The role emphasizes ownership from design to production, with Kotlin, Temporal, and modern cloud tech. You’ll join a senior engineer team in SoHo to solve challenging retirement‑tech problems.