Aptos Labs
Software Engineer, Payments Product Lead
$160K–$260K
Palo Alto, California +2 · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto, California
Palo Alto, California, United States
New York, United States - Experience
- 8+ years building payment infrastructure at production scale.
About the job
Found and lead the payments engineering unit, building and operating the Payment API, partner integrations, settlement and trust infrastructure, and its interface with the trading stack.
What you'll do
- Specify, ship, and operate the Payment API and testnet sandbox; deliver client integrations and production-ready stablecoin settlement.
- Lead technical relationships and integrations with financial partners, and build revenue attribution, reconciliation, and KYC/KYB infrastructure.
- Hire and lead the first two engineers; make build-versus-buy decisions and own the payments integration with the trading stack.
What they ask for
- 8+ years building production-scale payment infrastructure, such as cross-border rails, on/off-ramps, virtual accounts, or reconciliation.
- Hands-on chain-native settlement experience, including stablecoin rails, ramp integrations, or wallet infrastructure.
- Experience leading external technical relationships with banks, issuers, or regulated partners.
- Ability and willingness to ship code and lead a team.
Nice to have
- Move or Rust experience.
- APAC corridor experience, FX and market-structure fluency, payments regulation familiarity, or prior 0→1 experience.
Pay
$160k - $260k USD base salary
Tools
Move, Rust, USDT, USDC
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