Lead Software Engineer

Storm2; United States; On-site; USD 170,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Storm2 partners with a fast-growing fintech building global payments infrastructure for distributed teams. They seek an Engineering Lead to own the infrastructure moving money across traditional rails and digital assets, while coding most days.

You will shape technical strategy, mentor engineers, and collaborate with Product, Compliance, and Finance to deliver reliable, scalable systems that handle real money and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering with leadership experience.
• Deep banking and payments domain knowledge (ACH, wires, reconciliation).
• Proven track record delivering scalable payment infrastructure.
• Strong collaboration with Product and non-technical stakeholders.
• Authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and development of fiat on-ramp/off-ramp infrastructure.
• Build production services using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Integrate with banks, BaaS providers, payment processors, liquidity providers.
• Build resilient payment flows with settlement, ledgering, retries.
• Improve observability: monitoring, alerting, tracing, incident response.
• Design systems that recover from partner outages without funds loss or duplication.
• Translate customer priorities into technical roadmaps with Product.
• Collaborate with Compliance and Finance on regulatory and reconciliation needs.
• Lead and mentor engineers while staying hands-on.
• Help establish best practices for AI development tools across the team.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

APIs

Observability

Payment systems

Communication

SQL

Cloud infrastructure

Node.js

TypeScript

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

We're working with a fast-growing fintech building global payments infrastructure for modern, distributed teams.

They're looking for a Engineering Lead to own the infrastructure that moves money between traditional banking rails and digital assets. This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining architecture, production engineering, payment integrations, and team leadership.

You'll own the technical strategy and delivery of critical payment infrastructure, while continuing to write production code most days.

What You'll Do

• Own the architecture and development of fiat on-ramp and off-ramp infrastructure
• Build production services using Node.js and TypeScript
• Integrate with banks, BaaS providers, payment processors, liquidity providers, and other financial infrastructure partners
• Build resilient payment flows covering settlement, reconciliation, ledgering, retries, reversals, and failure recovery
• Improve observability across payment flows, including monitoring, alerting, tracing, and incident response
• Design systems that can safely recover from partner outages, failed transactions, and partial settlements without losing or duplicating funds
• Work closely with Product to translate customer and business priorities into technical roadmaps
• Partner with Compliance and Finance around regulatory, treasury, and reconciliation requirements
• Lead and mentor engineers while remaining highly hands-on
• Help establish best practices for using AI development tools across the engineering team

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership or ownership of a major engineering domain
• Deep experience integrating with banks, BaaS platforms, payment providers, or regulated financial institutions
• Strong understanding of banking and payments, including ACH, wires, settlement, ledgering, returns, reversals, KYC/KYB, and reconciliation
• Strong production experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Experience building and operating systems that move real money at scale
• Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architecture, monitoring, and incident response
• Comfortable with SQL and cloud infrastructure
• Strong communication skills and experience partnering directly with Product and non-technical stakeholders
• Authorized to work in the United States

Nice to Have

• Experience with crypto, stablecoins, or blockchain-based payments
• Familiarity with EVM-compatible smart contracts
• Experience with treasury, liquidity management, or FX
• Previous experience at a payments, payroll, fintech, or crypto company