Staff Backend Engineer, Money Movement

<h3>Accountabilities:</h3><li>Lead the architecture and greenfield development of the first version of a trust accounting platform, defining the technical vision, system design, and implementation strategy.</li><li>Design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and auditable backend services that support accurate financial records and reliable fund management.</li><li>Establish strong foundations for financial correctness, data integrity, compliance, and accountability throughout the platform's architecture and operational processes.</li><li>Develop and implement quality assurance practices, including automated testing, quality gates, and CI/CD integration, to ensure reliable and predictable releases.</li><li>Drive engineering best practices across system design, observability, security, resilience, and production operations.</li><li>Make pragmatic architectural decisions that balance delivery speed, simplicity, extensibility, and long-term maintainability.</li><li>Collaborate with product, design, finance, and legal stakeholders to translate business and regulatory requirements into effective technical solutions.</li><li>Provide technical leadership across teams by communicating architectural decisions clearly, influencing engineering standards, and promoting transparency and accountability.</li><li>Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, architectural guidance, hands-on pairing, and knowledge sharing.</li><li>Ensure the platform integrates seamlessly with existing products and can handle increasing transaction volumes and business complexity without requiring fundamental architectural changes.</li><li>Monitor production performance, identify failure modes and reliability risks, and continuously improve system throughput, accuracy, and operational stability.</li><h2>Requirements:</h2><li>At least eight years of professional software engineering experience, including a minimum of two years operating at Staff Engineer level or in an equivalent senior technical leadership position.</li><li>Strong proficiency in at least one backend programming language, with experience building and maintaining production-grade services.</li><li>Proven experience designing, delivering, and operating business-critical backend systems used by real customers at scale.</li><li>Strong architectural judgment, with the ability to design systems that start simple, evolve sustainably, and balance immediate delivery needs with future scalability.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead through technical credibility, clear communication, and collaboration, successfully influencing architecture, engineering standards, and platform adoption across teams.</li><li>Practical experience with cloud infrastructure and production operations, particularly AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and service reliability.</li><li>Strong understanding of system observability, automated testing, security, fault tolerance, and the operational challenges associated with distributed backend services.</li><li>Adaptability when working across multiple programming languages, frameworks, and existing codebases, with the ability to integrate solutions across different technologies.</li><li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, product, finance, design, and legal functions.</li><li>A strong sense of ownership, a delivery-focused mindset, and a commitment to correctness, accountability, and high-quality engineering.</li><li>Experience with accounting systems, financial infrastructure, ledger products, or accounting principles is a significant advantage.</li><li>Hands-on production experience with Go (Golang) is desirable.</li><li>The ability to work remotely from Germany while collaborating effectively with colleagues and internal stakeholders across the EMEA region.</li><h2>Benefits:</h2><li>
<strong>Competitive compensation:</strong>Salary packages aligned with market rates in the employee's country of residence.</li><li>
<strong>Fully remote work:</strong>Flexibility to work from home or another suitable location within your country of residence, with a remote-first working environment.</li><li>
<strong>Equity participation:</strong>Stock options that allow employees to share in the long-term success of a growing and profitable business.</li><li>
<strong>Annual paid leave:</strong>Paid vacation aligned with applicable country-specific and contractual requirements.</li><li>
<strong>Country-specific benefits:</strong>Access to benefits such as health insurance and pension contributions where customary and available, depending on the employee's location.</li><li>
<strong>Professional development:</strong>Opportunities to expand technical expertise, develop leadership capabilities, and progress professionally within a rapidly growing organization.</li><li>
<strong>Technical ownership:</strong>The opportunity to shape a critical financial platform from the ground up and influence its architecture, engineering standards, and long-term direction.</li><li>
<strong>International collaboration:</strong>Work with a diverse, distributed team spanning more than 40 countries, bringing together different perspectives and experiences.</li><li>
<strong>Values-driven culture:</strong>A working environment where core values guide strategic decisions, engineering practices, and everyday collaboration.</li><li>
<strong>Meaningful technical challenges:</strong>The opportunity to solve complex problems in financial infrastructure, system reliability, scalability, and secure money movement.</li>