Staff Software Engineer (Backend, Ledger Engineering)

Join our Ledger Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer (Backend). You will be responsible for setting the technical strategy for your team, collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle, and fostering a culture of quality and ownership. You will also help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance. Enjoy a remote-first work environment, generous time off, health benefits, and opportunities for learning and development.

• Setting technical strategy for the team on a year-long time scale and tying it to critical, business-impacting projects.
• Collaborating across teams in the product development lifecycle to ensure technical sustainability, risks, and trade-offs are well understood and managed.
• Taking ownership of the team’s operations and availability by ensuring the right monitoring, triage rotations, playbooks, policies, testing, and alerting are in place.
• You thrive in ambiguity, and are comfortable moving from low level language idioms all the way to the architecture of large systems to understand how they work
• You have an extensive track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL, Spark and Kubernetes
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team
• You have experience delivering major features, system components or deprecating existing functionality in a system through the definition of a technical and execution plan. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• You have experience in financial systems, ledgering, treasury or adjacent domains where data accuracy and system reliability are critical
• You have 8+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• Your growth and impact trajectory demonstrates that you have mastered gathering and iterating on feedback from your engineering and cross-functional peers