Fintech Futures - Staff Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Own technical vision and design for a major capability area and guide work that can inform industry standards.
• Manage cross-system risks and partner with domain and compliance stakeholders to shape the path from technical proof points to products.
• Champion investment in frontier technology and mentor engineers across an evolving, cross-functional environment.

What they ask for

• 8+ years developing software for large-scale business environments, including 5+ years designing complex distributed systems.
• End-to-end ownership of a complex technical domain and ability to set direction amid technical and organizational ambiguity.
• Expertise in payments/settlement, edge AI, or identity/trust systems; fluency in agent-driven development and cross-functional work with domain and compliance stakeholders.
• Fluency in Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript with React/Node, and Kubernetes-based runtimes such as AWS EKS.

Nice to have

• Prior involvement in an open standards body or protocol working group.
• Experience taking a technical capability through compliance/legal review to beta or sandbox; hands-on edge AI/on-device deployment experience.

Pay

$202,500 - $274,000 USD base salary

Tools

Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node, Kubernetes, AWS EKS

AI focus

Develops agent-initiated settlement and edge AI-driven financial agents that run locally on-device; requires architecting for agentic observability and autonomous code navigation and modification.