Senior Staff Software Engineer, Finhub

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

📋 Description

• Develop and lead FinHub’s multi-quarter technical strategy for the ledger and money-movement platform.

• Design unified, reusable components for fiat and crypto fund flows, encompassing balances, holds, settlements, postings, transfers, and transaction history.

• Oversee the rearchitecture of distributed financial workflows and state transitions.

• Implement standards for double-entry accounting, idempotency, invariant enforcement, reconciliation, auditability, and safe failure recovery.

• Manage the comprehensive design and execution of large cross-team initiatives with defined milestones, migration plans, and measurable results.

• Collaborate with Payments, Product, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations teams.

• Offer extensive technical mentorship to senior and staff engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of software engineering experience, particularly in building and operating large-scale backend distributed systems in production environments.

• Extensive experience in designing financial, payment, ledger, banking, trading, or other high-stakes transaction systems.

• Proficient in distributed systems, consistency models, asynchronous workflows, and state machines.

• Strong backend programming skills in Go, Java, or Python.

• Proven track record of driving multi-quarter technical strategy and leading complex architectural initiatives across various engineering teams without direct authority.

• Ability to articulate complex technical trade-offs clearly and foster alignment with executive, engineering, product, finance, and operations stakeholders.

• Responsible utilization of generative AI with appropriate human oversight.

• Must be eligible to work in the USA, as specified by the Remote - USA location and US Applicants notices.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for equity.

• Eligibility for bonuses.

• Medical insurance coverage.

• Dental insurance coverage.

• Vision insurance coverage.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Quarterly in-person working sessions (“surges”).

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Complimentary compatible screen reader for applicants requiring screen reading technology.