Staff Software Engineer

techchaintalent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Our client is a global fintech building blockchain-based infrastructure for payments, tokens, and financial applications. The Staff Software Engineer will extend their systems, design scalable APIs, and work with product and engineering to deliver secure, reliable services.

Responsibilities include building micro-services, integrating with banks, and driving best practices in coding and testing while collaborating with remote teams in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in professional software development with Go or Java.
• Computer Science degree or closely related field.
• Technical leadership of teams >4 on architecture and design.
• Expert in API design, payments processing, or blockchain.
• Deep understanding of scalable software, Web3, REST, cloud, and containers.
• Focus on coding standards and test coverage for CD.
• Excellent communication and ability to work with remote teams.
• Self-starter who ships fast and improves continuously.

Responsibilities

• Extend in-house blockchain infrastructure for tokenization and value transfer.
• Build and own scalable micro-services with secure APIs.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to design and document systems.
• Troubleshoot and restore normal operations when issues arise.
• Develop public APIs for developers to integrate with payments systems.
• Integrate platform services with banks and fintechs.

Skills

Go

Java

System architecture

API design

Blockchain

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

SQL databases

Testing / CI

Communication

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

About

Our client is a global financial technology company at the forefront of the new internet of money. Our infrastructure including USDC, a blockchain‑based dollar powers payments, commerce, and financial applications worldwide. We help businesses, institutions, and developers leverage breakthrough blockchain technologies to drive global economic prosperity and digital inclusion.

The Opportunity and Responsibilities

The Staff Software Engineer is responsible for extending their in‑house blockchain systems infrastructure to support the tokenization of the world; analyzing requirements, procedures, and problems to improve existing systems and modifying systems; building and owning scalable micro‑services that are responsible for reliable and secure APIs that transfer value and assets across all blockchain protocols as well as traditional banking protocols; collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to design, test, and shape their features, including developing and documenting system design procedures, testing procedures, and quality standards; troubleshooting program and system malfunctions to restore normal functioning; building publicly accessible APIs that make it simple for developers to integrate with complex payment systems; integrating Platform Services with leading banks and financial technologies; consulting with management to ensure agreement on system principles; writing the infrastructure to deliver great payment experiences, including data sources (SQL or NoSQL), messaging systems and APIs; other duties as assigned.

Key Requirements

• A. 7 years minimum professional software development experience in object‑oriented languages like Go or Java.
• B. Computer Science degree or a closely related field (or foreign equivalent).
• C. Technical leadership of teams >4 on architecture and system design.
• D. Expert in one of the domains of API design, payments processing, or blockchains.
• Deep understanding/experience with:
  • Architecture, design, and deployment of production‑quality, scalable software
  • Web3, blockchain, smart contract business logic
  • RESTful API design and development principles
  • Cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, etc.)
  • Container orchestration systems like Kubernetes or EKS, ECS
  • SQL databases and designing schemas
• F. Deep focus on coding standards and code quality, a desire to have great test coverage to enable continuous delivery.
• G. Excellent communication skills, able to collaborate with remote teams, share ideas and present concepts effectively.
• H. Self‑starter with a curious mindset, you enjoy moving at a fast pace, shipping software that improves the user experience and constantly improving your work with little supervision.