Software Engineer | Backend (Python)

Our client is a well?funded, early?stage fintech company that is rebuilding global financial infrastructure using stablecoins. Their products power real?world payments for millions of users worldwide, and they're looking for a senior backend engineer who wants true ownership and impact from day one.

This is a rare opportunity to join a small, senior?only engineering team working directly with experienced technical founders to build and scale a mission?critical financial platform.

What You'll Do

• Lead development of a core backend platform powering iOS, Android, and Web applications
• Build and scale REST APIs that handle real money and international transactions
• Integrate with payments, wallets, ledgers, banking providers, AML, and fraud systems
• Set technical standards and help shape backend architecture as the company grows
• Work hands?on in a high?ownership environment where your decisions matter

Tech Environment

• Python (FastAPI) backend
• Postgres, Redis, AWS
• Openness to Go or Rust for performance?critical services, * Direct collaboration with founders who have built and exited companies before
• Small team, high bar, real ownership
• Ground?floor role in the rapidly expanding stablecoin and payments ecosystem

If you're a senior backend engineer who has actually built fintech systems and wants to shape the future of global payments, not just maintain them, this is a role worth exploring!

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong hands?on experience with Python (Go or Rust a plus)
• Direct fintech building experience including payments, ledgers, wallets, AML, fraud, crypto or stablecoins
• Hands-on experience with Postgres, Redis, and AWS
• Experience owning systems end?to?end (not just maintaining parts of large enterprise platforms)
• Comfortable working in a fast?moving, early?stage startup
• GitHub profile required