Senior Fintech Backend Engineer – Payments & Ledger Remote

Alldus International Consulting Ltd

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

14 days+

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Salary $140k - $180k DOE
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401(k)
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Job summary

Our client in San Francisco is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the team remotely. You will build and evolve the double-entry ledger that serves as the platform's financial system of record, while shaping the next generation of the platform, including a major ledger rebuild and payment infrastructure expansion.

You will own the ledger, design money-movement infrastructure across ACH, instant payments, wires, cards, and settlements, and develop scalable payout and reconciliation systems

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering with backend focus in fintech.
  • Experience designing and owning a double-entry ledger in production.
  • Strong knowledge of webhooks, idempotency, state machines and reconciliation.
  • Proven ability to build reliable money-movement and settlement systems.
  • Experience with high-value financial transactions and transactional DBs.
  • Familiarity with React and TypeScript is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Own and evolve the double-entry ledger including audit trails.
  • Design money-movement infra across ACH, instant payments, wires and cards.
  • Build scalable payout and settlement systems for high-volume transactions.
  • Develop automated reconciliation across ledgers and partners.
  • Support lending-related infrastructure including disbursements and repayments.
  • Create multi-provider payment architecture with robust failure handling.
  • Implement controls for fraud, disputes, holds and settlement management.
  • Translate complex financial activity into clear customer experience.

Skills

Python
PostgreSQL
AWS
SQL
Ledger design
Payments
React
TypeScript

Job description

Our client in San Francisco is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the team remotely. You will build and evolve the double-entry ledger that serves as the platform's financial system of record, while shaping the next generation of the platform, including a major ledger rebuild and payment infrastructure expansion.

You will own the ledger, design money-movement infrastructure across ACH, instant payments, wires, cards, and settlements, and develop scalable payout and reconciliation systems

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