Platform Engineer

The Better Money Company; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Unlimited PTO

Off-sites

Job summary

The Better Money Company is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the test harness and correctness guarantees across critical money movement systems. You will work on integration tests, formal verification, and chaos testing, while building internal tooling and CI/CD infrastructure to scale a small team.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in platform engineering, strong distributed systems skills, and a track record of delivering production-grade tooling with high reliability in fintech or similar

Qualifications

• Has built test infrastructure for systems where correctness matters — payments, trading, ledgers, or similar.
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals; reasons confidently about resilient, correct systems at scale.
• Builds production-grade internal tooling without being asked.
• 3+ years in platform engineering, developer tooling, infrastructure, or reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own the test harness for core systems: integration tests, formal verification, chaos testing across ledger, netting, money movement, and payment ordering
• Build correctness guarantees that let the rest of the team ship faster with confidence
• Design and build internal tools and automation that amplify team productivity
• Own CI/CD, dev environments, and deployment infra — make the path to production fast, safe, and boring
• Instrument systems with observability (logging, tracing, alerting) to catch issues before customers do

Skills

Test infrastructure

Distributed systems

Production tooling

Reliability engineering

Job description

About The Better Money Company

The Better Money Company (TBMC) is building a stablecoin clearinghouse — the infrastructure layer that lets stablecoins move like money rather than a trading asset.

The clearinghouse gives fintechs, neobanks, banks, and payments companies 1:1 at-par swaps across chains and issuers, with guaranteed settlement times, fixed fees, and a compliant source of funds.

They already support 8 of the top 10 issuance platforms and move real money for customers today.

About the Role

TBMC moves real money on top of a well-built but complex state machine, and that system has to stay provably correct as it grows. The Platform Engineer owns the test harness and correctness guarantees — integration tests, formal verification, and chaos testing across the ledger, netting algorithm, money movement, and payment ordering — plus the internal tooling and dev infra that give a small team the leverage of a big one.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the test harness for core systems: integration tests, formal verification, chaos testing across ledger, netting, money movement, and payment ordering
• Build correctness guarantees that let the rest of the team ship faster with confidence
• Design and build internal tools and automation that amplify team productivity
• Own CI/CD, dev environments, and deployment infra — make the path to production fast, safe, and boring
• Instrument systems with observability (logging, tracing, alerting) to catch issues before customers do

Requirements

• 3+ years in platform engineering, developer tooling, infrastructure, or reliability engineering
• Has built test infrastructure for systems where correctness matters — payments, trading, ledgers, or similar
• Strong distributed-systems fundamentals; reasons confidently about resilient, correct systems at scale
• Builds production-grade internal tooling without being asked

Bonus Skills

• Formal verification, property-based testing, or chaos engineering
• Stablecoin / blockchain familiarity (teachable; not required)

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Unlimited PTO
• Periodic off-sites