Staff Software Engineer

Sydecar; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 310,000; Full time

Job summary

Sydecar is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco (Hybrid – 2 to 3 days in office) to lead large-scale initiatives and drive architectural decisions across core products. You will collaborate with Product, Design, Legal and Compliance to deliver cohesive platform-wide solutions and elevate investor/deal organizer experiences.

You will mentor engineers, shape roadmaps, and translate complex requirements into reliable, scalable services using TS/JS, NestJS, Prisma and PostgreSQL.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with leadership impact.
• Experience building large-scale, high-reliability distributed backends in fintech/payments.
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency and product intuition.

Responsibilities

• Lead large/complex projects and drive them to successful launches.
• Outline technology strategies with a 1–2 quarter horizon.
• Cultivate growth of full-stack engineers through mentorship.
• Shape product and design roadmaps and own architectural decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Legal, Compliance and CX teams.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Distributed backend systems

Technical leadership

System architecture

Data modeling

Product sense

Communication

Ownership

Tools

NestJS

Prisma

PostgreSQL

Jest

ESLint

Prettier

Terraform

TypeScript

React

Job description

About Us

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid, and we're achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed.

Sydecar is on a mission to transform the world of private markets. Our goal is to make these markets more accessible, transparent, and liquid, and we're achieving this by revolutionizing the way investment vehicles are created and executed. At Sydecar, we're not just a platform; we're a trusted partner in venture capital. We're dedicated to simplifying and standardizing the private investing experience, empowering capital allocators to discover and support visionary entrepreneurs who are shaping the future.

Our platform is designed with ease and efficiency in mind. We take care of all the behind-the-scenes tasks, from automating banking, ensuring compliance, handling contracts, managing taxes, to streamlining reporting. This leaves investors the freedom to concentrate on what matters most: making valuable deals and nurturing meaningful relationships.

Join us at Sydecar, as we lead the charge in revolutionizing private investing.

Locations

San Francisco (Hybrid – 2 to 3 days per week in office)

About Our Engineering Teams

We’re hiring across multiple teams and are excited to match engineers with roles that align with their interests and strengths. Whether you’re full stack, front end–focused, or more backend–oriented, we have opportunities that fit your skill set and where you want to grow.

Our software development is AI-centric and requires demonstrated experience leveraging agentic software development workflows.

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: TypeScript and React in a mono-repo structure
• Backend: TypeScript, using NestJS and Prisma
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Testing & Code Quality: Jest and linted/auto-formatted with ESLint/Prettier
• Design: Wireframes and prototypes crafted in Figma
• Infrastructure: Maintained as Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform

What You Will Do

As a Staff Software Engineer, you are the archetype for the engineering organization. You are comfortable leading large project teams or working on complex projects few others in the organization can take on. You leverage business and organizational awareness to outline quarter-long technology strategies and drive implementation across the organization, elevating the quality, functionality, and potential of Sydecar's core product. You are a Product engineer first, helping our core applications team improve the experience for deal organizers and investors, who combine to close hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding annually.

• Lead large/complex projects.
• Outline technology strategies with a 1-2 quarter time horizon.
• Cultivate the growth of talented full stack engineers through mentorship.
• Help shape the product and design roadmaps.
• Drive end-to-end the architectural decisions, scalability planning, and long-term strategic vision for these key components.
• Collaborate across functions with Product and Design, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Experience and other engineering leaders to deliver cohesive, platform-wide solutions.

What We’re Looking For

• 8+ years of professional experience as a software engineer, with a proven track record of technical leadership and driving org-wide impact.
• Expertise in building large-scale, high-reliability, distributed backend systems, ideally in the fintech or payments space.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript is highly preferred.
• Experience managing the complete project lifecycle, transforming intricate ideas and ambiguous requirements into successful launches independently.
• Deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and building core services with clean interfaces.
• Product sense and a passion for advocating for the customer, with experience building robust systems that directly impact business-critical flows.
• Outstanding capacity to convey intricate technical concepts clearly and precisely, both in writing and verbally, to diverse functional teams.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of projects, while also thriving in a team environment, often guiding the work of several other engineers across multiple projects.
• Ability to implement and influence engineering best practices.

Sydecar’s values

Our values are important to the way we live and work at Sydecar. They guide our priorities, behaviors and interactions.

Be Committed

As a team, we rise to meet challenges and recognize that we become stronger and develop character when facing adversity.

Be Excellent

We measure our success not just by what we achieve, but by how we achieve it—through integrity, creativity, elegance, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Excellence is not just doing things well—it's looking for ways to do them better.

Be Humble

Humility is our key to personal and professional growth. We appreciate that great ideas can come from anywhere, regardless of seniority, pedigree, or experience. We care more about collective outcomes than who gets credit or who does what. We try to not let our ego cloud our judgment.

Win Together

Winning is no accident. It is the result of collective hard work, perseverance, sacrifice, and most of all, loving what we do. Winning requires that we give extra—sometimes winning calls for late nights or extra effort, and we show up for clients and each other with urgency and heart. While excellence is a journey, winning is a destination.

Sydecar is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Sydecar are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV Status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Sydecar will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Sydecar encourages applicants of all ages.

Compensation Range: $225K - $310K