Location: San Francisco, California

Required Skills: C/C++, Python, Java, AWS, Docker

Company Description
We are building a next-generation payment infrastructure in the US to eliminate reliance on existing networks and banks and to provide fair financial services for everyone. We are a well-funded startup backed by leading venture capital firms with successful track records in value creation.

Job Description
As a core systems engineer, you will be responsible for designing and implementing the next generation of payment rails for the largest merchants in the world. We focus on hiring engineers who have the experience to execute quickly and with foresight. This often means you have learned from implementing large scale projects, and you understand the successes to repeat and the various failures to plan against. We want people who have practical experience, and who can clearly articulate and implement a complex system from scratch.

General Requirements

• Knowledge of standard security practices, protocols, and principles
• Understand networking concepts and can fluently talk through a networking stack
• Good API design sense and understanding of what makes an API a pleasure to work with
• Previous experience designing non-trivial applications and/or distributed systems, and can articulate common pitfalls, patterns, and tradeoffs required during varying levels of an application's lifecycle
• Capable of getting deep into technical details with the experience to not get bogged down in those details
• Comfortable with a high level of autonomy and responsibility
• Experience with highly-available, low-latency applications performing under heavy load
• Able to understand developer problems and fix them
• Strong attention to detail and a love for diagnosing complex problems
• 3 to 5+ years of professional software engineering

Responsibilities

• Design a funds flow that is robust to failure, secure, and imaginative without restraint from the current card network rules
• Be heavily involved in recruiting and building a team of colleagues with whom you would most want to work
• Have deep involvement in day to day operational decisions which will impact the future of the company for years to come
• Create and drive a roadmap for the team, working across functions and managing complex dependencies that will help us scale

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance