Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Platform, Scalable

SOLANA FOUNDATION; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

SOLANA FOUNDATION's Fin team seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to own core services powering global payments and accounts. You will design, build, and maintain scalable systems that move real money, integrate with payment processors and banks, and ensure security and reliability.

You will work with the CEO, CTO, and a small senior team to set technical direction, ship production systems quickly, and improve observability.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Strong experience designing and building scalable distributed backend systems.
• History of owning critical backend infrastructure and making architectural decisions.
• Deep familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and infrastructure as code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain core backend services that power global payments and account experiences.
• Own key systems end to end, from data models and APIs to deployment and ongoing operations.
• Integrate with payment processors, on and off ramps, banks, and compliance and identity providers.
• Monitor, tune, and scale backend services while maintaining high availability and strong performance.
• Define and champion backend engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural patterns.
• Build internal tools and automation that improve developer productivity and system reliability.
• Set and guide technical direction for backend architecture with a clear view of business impact and scalability.
• Review code, share knowledge, and help raise the bar for the rest of the engineering team.
• Own our cloud infrastructure setup and deployment workflows in partnership with the rest of the team.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Rust

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Temporal

Job description

SOLANA FOUNDATION's Fin team seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to own core services powering global payments and accounts. You will design, build, and maintain scalable systems that move real money, integrate with payment processors and banks, and ensure security and reliability.

You will work with the CEO, CTO, and a small senior team to set technical direction, ship production systems quickly, and improve observability.