Founding Payments Platform Lead - API & Architecture

Aptoslabs; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% insurance premium coverage

Equipment of your choice

Flexible vacation time

Competitive Salary

401k matching

Token grants

In-person and digital events

Job summary

Aptos is hiring a founding technical leader for a dedicated financial services unit. You will own the Aptos Payment API, oversee partner integrations, and shape the trust infrastructure, KYC integration, and settlement policies.

You will also lead the first engineers, set architectural direction, and drive revenue-backed decisions. The role emphasizes hands-on, architectural leadership with a track record in production-scale payment systems, and collaboration with trading and compliance teams to

Qualifications

• 8+ years building payment infrastructure at production scale — PSP or orchestrator-class systems: cross-border rails, on/off-ramps, virtual accounts, reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Aptos Payment API v1 and related integrations across partner networks.
• Be the technical face to banks, EMIs, PSPs, and wallet platforms; own requirements and diligence.

Skills

Payment infrastructure

External relations

Leadership

Product engineering mindset

Job description

Aptos is hiring a founding technical leader for a dedicated financial services unit. You will own the Aptos Payment API, oversee partner integrations, and shape the trust infrastructure, KYC integration, and settlement policies.

You will also lead the first engineers, set architectural direction, and drive revenue-backed decisions. The role emphasizes hands-on, architectural leadership with a track record in production-scale payment systems, and collaboration with trading and compliance teams to