Rhythmic ยท 1 week ago
Founding Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$200K/yr - $260K/yrRhythmic is a groundbreaking embedded finance company founded by senior fintech operators. They are seeking a Founding Engineer to lead engineering execution and technical decision-making as they develop managed stablecoin infrastructure for consumer brands.
Financial Services
Hiring Manager
Joseph Hayes
Responsibilities
Own day-to-day engineering execution and technical decision-making
Coordinate and provide technical leadership to early internal engineers and contractors
Own critical architecture, code paths, and production systems
Make pragmatic architectural and execution decisions
Write production code across the stack
Balance speed with long-term integrity in an early-stage environment
Qualification
Required
Built and shipped production systems supporting real users and real financial or consumer workflows where reliability mattered
Owned systems end-to-end, including backend services, frontend delivery, data models, and operational reliability
Designed and operated systems dependent on third-party infrastructure such as payments, card issuing, identity, and KYC, or other regulated services
Mentored or guided other engineers in high-ownership environments, even without formal management titles
Experience building modern backend services using Java, Python, Node.js, or Go, alongside React, relational and non-relational databases, event-driven systems, and cloud-based production operations including AWS, CI/CD, and monitoring
Comfort using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate implementation and iteration in a lean engineering environment
Preferred
Experience with crypto, blockchain, and smart contract-based systems, particularly where those systems intersect with regulated financial workflows, custody models, and real economic risk
Benefits
Meaningful early-stage equity
Company
Rhythmic
Rhythmic is a groundbreaking new embedded finance company founded by senior fintech operators with experience at Circle, Mastercard, Visa, and American Express.
Founded in 2025
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase