Payments Infrastructure Engineer

EQL Tech (sales & engineering talent); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Founding Equity

Relocation Support

Comprehensive Visa Sponsorship

Job summary

A high-growth technology startup in San Francisco is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to manage all aspects of money movement. This role involves designing and building robust payment systems while ensuring correctness and reliability. Candidates should have a strong ownership mindset, attention to detail, and be familiar with banking infrastructure like Lithic or Stripe Issuing. With generous founding equity and relocation support, this position allows you to directly impact how public education funds are accessed by families.

Qualifications

• Obsessive about correctness in financial transactions.
• Build systems with reliability in unpredictable environments.
• Desire to take full ownership of monetary processes.
• High attention to detail, particularly in transaction tracing.
• Experience with relevant banking infrastructure is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Design a reliable money movement architecture.
• Ensure high-integrity reconciliation processes.
• Minimize operational risks through better systems design.
• Own the architecture for payment systems across services.
• Maintain aligned ledgers despite event-related challenges.

Skills

Correctness

Reliability under failure

Ownership in engineering

High-auditability mindset

Tools

Lithic

Column

LoanPro

Stripe Issuing

Job description

A high-growth technology startup in San Francisco is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to manage all aspects of money movement. This role involves designing and building robust payment systems while ensuring correctness and reliability. Candidates should have a strong ownership mindset, attention to detail, and be familiar with banking infrastructure like Lithic or Stripe Issuing. With generous founding equity and relocation support, this position allows you to directly impact how public education funds are accessed by families.