Avara · 5 hours ago

Principal Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

3+ years exp

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CryptocurrencyDecentralized Finance (DeFi)

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Hiring Manager

Muna Gullam

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Responsibilities

Oversee the end-to-end process of designing, implementing, and deploying regulated payments infrastructure

Ask questions, uncover edge cases, and tend to our documentation

Go fast, be agile, but also know when to slow down. As a regulated payments business, we need to take some decisions slowly in order to design for zero-defects and massive scale

Obsess over transaction processing speed and clear communication with Customers. This is how we build trust.

Maintain short feedback cycles through communicating priorities, failing forward, and learn as a team

Qualification

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Fintech experiencePayments experienceTypeScriptTransaction processingAPI-first servicesPostgresGraphQLRestful APIsDistributed backend designLedgeringAsynchronous risk monitoringProduction environment experienceDynamic environment adaptability

Required

Minimum of 3 years in a Staff or Principal Engineering role, with a strong preference for experience in Fintech and Payments

Advanced proficiency in TypeScript, Postgres, GraphQL, Restful and distributed backend system design

Solid grasp of transaction processing and ledgering and asynchronous risk monitoring

Experience building mission critical, API-first, services in a production environment for enterprise-scale customers

Thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Driven by the opportunity to make decentralized finance the backbone of fintech and to contribute meaningfully to its practical application in the real world