{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"01de0b007bf3f8c13f34406e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01de0b007bf3f8c13f34406e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/01de0b007bf3f8c13f34406e","title":"Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer / Technical Lead","description":"Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer / Technical Lead\r\nSan Francisco | Full-Time | In Office\r\nExperience: 7–10 years\r\nLocation: San Francisco, CA – in office\r\nVisa: Sponsorship / H-1B transfer support available\r\nRelocation: Available; expected timeline typically 1–2 months\r\nStart: Immediate preferred; notice periods can be accommodated\r\nAbout the CompanyOur client is a well-funded, senior-only San Francisco team led by founders with successful exits. The company is building next-generation consumer finance infrastructure for emerging markets, combining virtual banking, stablecoin and cryptocurrency wallet capabilities, and cross-border money movement in one secure platform.\r\nThe mission is to make global financial services faster, more accessible, and more reliable for people who are underserved by traditional banking systems. This is an early-stage environment where engineers can have immediate impact and help shape the product and technical direction from the ground up.\r\nThe RoleThis is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineering generalist who can work across backend, web, mobile, infrastructure, security, and architecture. You will work directly with the founders, make key architecture decisions, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and lead delivery of a secure, reliable product handling real-money movement at international scale.\r\nWhat You Will DoDefine and evolve system architecture across backend, web, mobile, infrastructure, security, and data.\r\nBuild and ship a high-quality consumer financial product from the ground up.\r\nMake technical trade-offs around scalability, latency, reliability, compliance, data integrity, and security.\r\nSet engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and production reliability.\r\nMentor engineers, review technical decisions, and help grow a high-performing engineering team.\r\nPartner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and the founders to translate product goals into technical execution.\r\nOwn outcomes across multiple layers of the stack rather than operating as a narrow frontend or backend specialist.\r\nTechnology EnvironmentBackend: Python + FastAPI; strong candidates may also come from Go or Java backgrounds\r\nWeb: React + TypeScript\r\nMobile: iOS / Swift and Android / Kotlin understanding; deep mobile specialization is not required\r\nDatabase: PostgreSQL – strong data modeling, query optimization, transactions, and scaling\r\nCloud: AWS, containers, deployment pipelines, monitoring, security, and modern CI/CD\r\nCore Engineering: APIs, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, system design, and secure financial infrastructure\r\nWhat Success Looks LikeYou think like a builder and product owner, not just a feature implementer.\r\nYou can see the whole system, explain trade-offs clearly, and make decisions without constant direction.\r\nYou are comfortable leading technically while remaining close to implementation and code quality.\r\nYou thrive in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and direct founder interaction.\r\nWhat We Are Looking For7–10 years of experience building and shipping consumer-facing mobile and/or web products.\r\nMeaningful full-stack breadth, with strong backend foundations and enough frontend/mobile knowledge to lead cross-platform discussions.\r\nStrong system design and architecture experience across APIs, distributed systems, databases, scalability, and reliability.\r\nHands‑on technical leadership experience: architecture reviews, technical decision‑making, mentoring, code reviews, and engineering standards.\r\nStrong PostgreSQL fundamentals, including data modeling, transaction handling, query optimization, and scale.\r\nExperience with AWS and modern cloud engineering practices such as containers, CI/CD, monitoring, deployment pipelines, and security.\r\nStrong communication skills and the ability to work directly with founders, engineers, and product teams.\r\nStrongly PreferredFinTech experience in payments, wallets, banking, stablecoins, crypto, remittance, or other financial platforms.\r\nStartup experience, especially Seed to Series B/C, with evidence of building from scratch, working in small teams, and owning outcomes.\r\nExperience building high-growth consumer products at scale.\r\nExperience building products for Latin American or other emerging markets.\r\nWhat We OfferDay 1 impact on a rapidly scaling consumer finance product.\r\nOpportunity to shape the technical vision, architecture, engineering culture, and team as the company grows.\r\nVisa sponsorship / H-1B transfer support and relocation assistance available.\r\nInterview ProcessStage 1: Technical phone interview with a short coding challenge.\r\nStage 2: Optional additional technical conversation if further validation is needed.\r\nStage 3: 3-hour in-person interview in San Francisco, including a comprehensive live coding exercise. 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