Senior Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Create and implement features focused on backend development using TypeScript and Node.js; develop and enhance REST APIs with an emphasis on accuracy, consistency, and well-defined service boundaries.

• Engage with SQL (PostgreSQL) for data modeling, migrations, and ensuring data consistency.

• Assume full responsibility for one or more services, overseeing everything from requirements gathering and implementation to production support, while facilitating integration efforts with external partners (vendors, clients) as necessary.

• Manage production behavior: investigate incidents, troubleshoot API failures, analyze data issues, and apply reliability strategies (timeouts, retries, idempotency, graceful degradation).

• Enhance observability (logs, metrics, insights into system behavior) and suggest improvements where reliability, performance, or monitoring may be lacking.

• Engage in technical spikes: analyze ambiguous problems and transform them into actionable technical plans.

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering Management to clarify requirements and minimize ambiguity early on; contribute to technical discussions, highlight risks, and articulate trade-offs.

• Review code, mentor mid-level engineers, and contribute to React code when features necessitate UI updates or customer-facing workflows.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 4 years of professional experience in software development.

• Strong backend proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js.

• Practical experience in production environments: handling incidents, debugging, API failures, and data issues.

• Experience managing a service from start to finish, including requirements through to production support.

• Clear architectural thinking at the product level: well-structured APIs, correct data boundaries, effective error handling, and the capability to assess trade-offs.

• Understanding of microservice architectures and platform-level interactions.

• In-depth knowledge of HTTP APIs, SQL data modeling, and common failure scenarios.

• Proficient in the daily use of AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code), with the ability to swiftly and critically review AI-generated code.

• Willingness to gain a thorough understanding of cryptocurrency and stablecoin payments: prior experience in crypto is optional, but extensive on-the-job learning of the domain is essential.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity: ask pertinent questions and structure unclear problems, working independently without excessively detailed technical specifications.

• Demonstrated initiative: proactively identify issues before they are assigned to you, raise risks early, and present a proposed solution alongside the problem.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-issued laptop.

• Technology accessories.

• Annual in-person full-team meetup.