Senior Backend Engineer: Stablecoin Payments, NYC

Speedrun Talent Network; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

Speedrun Talent Network is seeking a backend engineer to own the systems that move real value in our stablecoin clearinghouse. You will design, build, and operate core backend services behind mint/burn flows, reserve accounting, reconciliation, and settlement pipelines.

You'll integrate with banks, custody providers, stablecoin issuers, blockchains, and partner APIs, and build durable reconciliation and audit trails so the team always knows where money is.

Qualifications

• 5-12 years of production backend engineering experience.
• Experience with high-value transactional systems: payments, banking integrations, fintech infrastructure.
• Knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, eventing, idempotency, retries, observability.
• Judgment for integrating with unreliable external systems: banks, payment rails, custody providers, issuers.
• Experience designing secure APIs, handling secrets and access control, instrumentation, runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core backend services behind mint/burn flows, reserve accounting, reconciliation, and settlement pipelines.
• Integrate with banks, custody providers, stablecoin issuers, blockchains, and partner APIs.
• Build durable reconciliation and audit trails so the team always knows where money is, what happened, and whether state matches reality.
• Design secure API surfaces and own monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response for services that move real value.
• Contribute to the payments API and internal/admin surfaces where backend ownership meets customer or operations workflows.
• Identify and pursue improvements that make the core product more robust, without waiting for a fully specified ticket.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

Security & incident response

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

GCP

Temporal

TigerBeetle

Rust

Python

Job description

Speedrun Talent Network is seeking a backend engineer to own the systems that move real value in our stablecoin clearinghouse. You will design, build, and operate core backend services behind mint/burn flows, reserve accounting, reconciliation, and settlement pipelines.

You'll integrate with banks, custody providers, stablecoin issuers, blockchains, and partner APIs, and build durable reconciliation and audit trails so the team always knows where money is.