Staff Financial Infra Architect – Payments & Ledger (Remote)

Remotebridge; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Equity

Remote-first workforce

Paid time off

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and build our financial infrastructure from the ground up, owning global payments, ledgering, and reconciliation systems. This remote role partners with finance, operations, and leadership to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for a growing, remote-first organization.

You'll lead architectural decisions, set technical direction, and ensure payment accuracy, security, and observability across multi-currency environments and providers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend software engineering experience with ownership of production financial systems.
• Experience architecting payment, payout, or ledger infrastructure from design to scale.
• Deep knowledge of payment processing, money movement, and transaction lifecycles.
• Experience with double-entry ledgers, reconciliation, and auditable transactions.
• Experience integrating payment providers and banking rails across currencies and geographies.
• Strong TypeScript backend skills, SQL, relational databases, and event-driven architectures.
• Proven ability to own complex technical initiatives and deliver production systems in fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable financial infrastructure for global payments and payouts.
• Design reliable payment workflows across currencies, rails, and providers with safe retries.
• Develop double-entry ledgering, reconciliation, and audit systems.
• Integrate payment providers, banking partners, and payout rails (ACH, SEPA, SWIFT).
• Build financial controls, monitoring, and fraud prevention workflows.
• Create resilient, event-driven systems handling outages and high volumes.
• Lead architectural decisions, design reviews, and migrations.
• Collaborate with founders, finance, and operations to translate requirements.
• Establish engineering best practices for observability and platform reliability.

Skills

Backend engineering

TypeScript

SQL

Relational databases

Event-driven architectures

Distributed systems

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to architect and build our financial infrastructure from the ground up, owning global payments, ledgering, and reconciliation systems. This remote role partners with finance, operations, and leadership to deliver reliable, scalable solutions for a growing, remote-first organization.

You'll lead architectural decisions, set technical direction, and ensure payment accuracy, security, and observability across multi-currency environments and providers.