Senior Backend Engineer - Connectivity & Observability

Suave; New York (NY); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Suave is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure in New York to architect and deliver backend services enabling connectivity and settlement across external networks. You will design scalable systems, integrate with core banking and ledger ecosystems, and develop robust reconciliation and audit-trail tooling.

The role emphasizes correctness and high reliability, with on-call duties and strong focus on observability to ensure compliance-driven controls in the transaction path.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend or distributed systems.
• Correctness-first mindset in high-reliability domain (payments, settlement, trading, or similar).
• Fluency in a modern typed language (Go, Rust, or TypeScript).
• Strong API and systems integration experience.
• Comfort with on-call and production observability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services for connectivity and settlement.
• Integrate with bank core, custody, and ledger systems and external networks.
• Build reconciliation and audit-trail tooling for regulatory/exam purposes.
• Own reliability and observability for the systems you ship.
• Collaborate with compliance to keep controls in the transaction path.

Skills

Backend distributed systems

Typed languages (Go/Rust/TS)

API & systems integration

On-call & observability

Tools

Go

Rust

TypeScript

Job description

Suave is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure in New York to architect and deliver backend services enabling connectivity and settlement across external networks. You will design scalable systems, integrate with core banking and ledger ecosystems, and develop robust reconciliation and audit-trail tooling.

The role emphasizes correctness and high reliability, with on-call duties and strong focus on observability to ensure compliance-driven controls in the transaction path.