Conduit · 1 week ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (US, Europe, LatAm)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expConduit is a company focused on creating fair economic opportunities through efficient global commerce. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to design and scale systems for their fintech and payments platform, utilizing technologies such as Node.js, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL.
Financial ServicesFinTechInformation TechnologyPayments
Responsibilities
Build and operate backend services in Node.js/TypeScript with PostgreSQL at scale
Design APIs that power financial transactions, ensuring idempotency, reliability, and developer-friendly integration
Architect solutions for complex challenges across payments, ledgering, and reconciliation
Lead feature delivery, from design through implementation, testing, and deployment
Collaborate closely with product, design, and infra teams to align system design with business priorities
Review code and mentor peers, raising the engineering bar across the team
Investigate and resolve production issues with a focus on root cause prevention
Qualification
Required
5+ years of backend software engineering experience
Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
Proven experience building APIs that power financial or transactional systems
Understanding of payments, fintech, or other transaction-heavy domains
Experience designing for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance
Familiarity with distributed systems concepts (idempotency, concurrency, data integrity)
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
Preferred
Experience with blockchain development (e.g., smart contracts, wallets, tokenization)
Extensive fintech experience
Experience building or operating payments systems, including transaction lifecycles, retries, idempotency, and failure handling
Familiarity with ledgers, reconciliation, settlement, and FX flows in cross-border financial systems
Understanding of payment rails (e.g., ACH, wires, SEPA, SWIFT, cards) and their operational and regulatory tradeoffs
Experience designing client-facing APIs with a strong focus on correctness, backward compatibility, clear contracts, and developer experience
Benefits
Equity
Significant equity stake in a rapidly growing series A startup. Own your impact and share in our success.
Compensation and flexibility
Market-leading salary, performance bonuses, and top health insurance in a remote-first environment with unlimited PTO.
Impactful work
Join a mission-driven team revolutionizing payments for underserved markets, with the chance to build legacy-defining technology.
Company
Conduit
Conduit is a better way for global businesses to simply and cheaply move money with faster speed, better visibility and fewer steps.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$53MKey Investors
Helios Investment Partners
2025-03-05Series A· $30M
2024-08-12Seed· $6M
2022-01-13Seed· $17M
Leadership Team
Kirill Gertman
CEO
Mark Graves
Chief Legal Officer, Chief Compliance Officer, Board Member / Director
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