Senior Fintech Systems Engineer - Remote, Equity

Storm2; California; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first culture

Equity in a growing fintech

Job summary

Storm2 is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and build complex financial systems that process millions of dollars daily. You will be a core engineer designing cross-domain solutions coordinating payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management across a distributed microservices architecture.

The role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to solve challenging engineering problems spanning multiple domains and external integrations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience building complex, production systems.
• Demonstrated systems engineering experience solving complex, cross-domain challenges.
• Strong foundation in algorithms, data structures, and computer science fundamentals.
• Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Architect Critical Financial Systems: Design and implement payment processing, fraud detection, and compliance systems that handle millions of dollars daily with strict regulatory requirements.
• Lead Cross-Domain Solutions: Coordinate complex interactions between payments, fraud detection, user management, and compliance systems.
• Drive Technical Decisions: Lead architecture decisions that impact their entire platform and establish best practices for a growing team.
• Mentor Engineers: Guide junior engineers and establish coding standards, design patterns, and engineering practices.
• Optimize System Performance: Improve reliability and performance across their distributed microservices architecture.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with product and compliance teams to design systems that meet business and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Distributed systems

Algorithms

Data structures

Microservices

System design

Leadership

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Python

NoSQL

SQL

GCP

CQRS

DDD

Job description

Storm2 is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and build complex financial systems that process millions of dollars daily. You will be a core engineer designing cross-domain solutions coordinating payments, fraud detection, compliance, and user management across a distributed microservices architecture.

The role requires deep systems thinking, technical leadership, and the ability to solve challenging engineering problems spanning multiple domains and external integrations.