Lead Software Engineer
Engineering LeadRemote (US)
About the Role:
We’re working with a fast-growing fintech building global payments infrastructure for modern, distributed teams. They’re looking for a Engineering Lead to own the infrastructure that moves money between traditional banking rails and digital assets. This is a hands-on technical leadership role combining architecture, production engineering, payment integrations, and team leadership. You’ll own the technical strategy and delivery of critical payment infrastructure, while continuing to write production code most days.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the architecture and development of fiat on-ramp and off-ramp infrastructure
- Build production services using Node.js and TypeScriptIntegrate with banks, BaaS providers, payment processors, liquidity providers, and other financial infrastructure partners
- Build resilient payment flows covering settlement, reconciliation, ledgering, retries, reversals, and failure recovery
- Improve observability across payment flows, including monitoring, alerting, tracing, and incident response
- Design systems that can safely recover from partner outages, failed transactions, and partial settlements without losing or duplicating funds
- Work closely with Product to translate customer and business priorities into technical roadmaps
- Partner with Compliance and Finance around regulatory, treasury, and reconciliation requirements
- Lead and mentor engineers while remaining highly hands-onHelp establish best practices for using AI development tools across the engineering team
What We’re Looking For:
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership or ownership of a major engineering domain
- Deep experience integrating with banks, BaaS platforms, payment providers, or regulated financial institutions
- Strong understanding of banking and payments, including ACH, wires, settlement, ledgering, returns, reversals, KYC/KYB, and reconciliation
- Strong production experience with Node.js and TypeScriptExperience building and operating systems that move real money at scale
- Strong background in distributed systems, APIs, event-driven architecture, monitoring, and incident response
- Comfortable with SQL and cloud infrastructure
- Security-first engineering mindset
- Strong communication skills and experience partnering directly with Product and non-technical stakeholders
- Authorized to work in the United StatesNice to Have
- Experience with crypto, stablecoins, or blockchain-based payments
- Familiarity with EVM-compatible smart contracts
- Experience with treasury, liquidity management, or FXPrevious experience at a payments, payroll, fintech, or crypto company