Senior Staff Engineer: Stablecoin Core & Ledger Architect

SOLANA FOUNDATION; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

PAYO Digital Bank, N.A. seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to anchor its engineering org and architect its core transactional systems. You will own the design of the integration between the core banking ledger and the stablecoin issuance engine, ensuring bank-grade accuracy and auditable reconciliations.

Reporting to the CTO, you will provide technical direction to the core team, set standards for architecture, reviews, testing, observability, and deployment in a regulated banking environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including architecture of high-integrity transactional systems.
• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture and exactly-once processing semantics.
• Experience with regulated environments, audits, and regulatory exam readiness.
• Proven track record mentoring senior engineers and setting architectural standards.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own the bank's core backend, microservices, persistence schemas, events, and internal APIs.
• Design reconciliation between fiat subledger, reserves, and on-chain supply with secure messaging for mint/burn actions.
• Lead Core Backend team; set standards for reviews, testing, observability, and regulated deployment.
• Integrate sanctions screening connectors with auditable screening and escalation hooks.
• Partner with SRE on multi-region availability, failover, and real-time ledger alerts; coordinate with Security on IAM and threat modeling.
• Support UAT, feature freezes, and external control validation ahead of regulatory exams.

Skills

Engineering depth

Distributed systems

Regulatory understanding

Mentorship

Auditing experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

PAYO Digital Bank, N.A. seeks a Senior Staff Engineer to anchor its engineering org and architect its core transactional systems. You will own the design of the integration between the core banking ledger and the stablecoin issuance engine, ensuring bank-grade accuracy and auditable reconciliations.

Reporting to the CTO, you will provide technical direction to the core team, set standards for architecture, reviews, testing, observability, and deployment in a regulated banking environment.