Staff Backend Engineer (New York City Metropolitan Area)
New York City (4 days onsite)
Up to $325k base + equity
We're working with a fast-growing fintech infrastructure startup building the technology that enables seamless money movement between traditional finance and crypto.
They're looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to take technical ownership of core infrastructure powering payments, settlement and transaction routing across multiple blockchains and payment providers.
This is a hands-on senior IC role with significant influence over architecture, technical direction and engineering standards.
You'll be responsible for
- Architecting and building high-performance, low-latency backend systems
- Designing scalable APIs and distributed services for payments and transaction processing
- Solving complex engineering challenges around transaction routing, settlement, security and reliability
- Driving technical decisions and setting engineering standards across the backend
- Working closely with product and engineering teams to design and deliver new infrastructure
- Mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership without direct management responsibilities
What they're looking for
- Extensive experience building and scaling production backend systems
- Strong TypeScript proficiency
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, databases and cloud infrastructure
- Proven experience owning complex technical architecture and driving engineering decisions
- Strong track record of delivering reliable, high-performance systems at scale
- Previous experience operating at Staff level or equivalent technical scope
- Comfortable working hands-on in a fast-moving startup environment
Bonus points for experience with payments infrastructure, financial systems, blockchain integrations or event-driven architectures.
Crypto experience is not essential, but experience building complex, high-availability infrastructure is.
If you're a senior backend engineer who enjoys solving difficult technical problems, owning architecture and building infrastructure from the ground up, I'd love to chat.