Sydecar
Staff Software Engineer
$22K–$310K
San Francisco Office - Hybrid +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jan 16, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco Office - Hybrid
New York Office - Hybrid - Experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
About the job
Leads complex engineering projects and product development, setting technology strategy and architecture for Sydecar’s private-investing platform.
What you'll do
- Lead large or complex projects and set technology strategies with a 1–2 quarter horizon.
- Drive architecture, scalability planning, and long-term technical vision; shape product and design roadmaps.
- Mentor full-stack engineers and collaborate across engineering, Product, Design, Legal, Compliance, and Customer Experience.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with technical leadership and organization-wide impact.
- Expertise building large-scale, high-reliability distributed backend systems.
- Experience managing projects from ambiguous requirements through launch, and deep expertise in system architecture, data modeling, and core services.
- Strong product sense, communication, ownership, and ability to influence engineering best practices.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech or payments.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript is described as highly preferred.
Pay
$225K – $310K USD base salary; $22.5K – $31K USD bonus
Tools
TypeScript, React, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Jest, ESLint, Terraform
AI focus
The engineering organization uses AI-centric software development and requires demonstrated experience with agentic software development workflows.
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