Routefusion
Staff Engineer
Austin · Staff+
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 474 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsSQLPostgreSQLGCPCloud PlatformsDevOpsGraphQLRESTIncident ResponseDesign SystemsTCP/IPLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- As a Staff Engineer, you will be a critical technical leader, driving the evolution of our core systems that make up our global infrastructure and ultimately serve people and financial systems around the globe.
- You will work on complex systems and ensure security, scalability, and reliability throughout the stack.
- The right engineer will allow us to scale faster and more reliably as our business accelerates.
Responsibilities
- ○ Help define and drive the technical roadmap for critical platform infrastructure components.
- ○ Provide architectural guidance and expertise on complex system design and implementation.
- ○ Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve engineering practices and infrastructure efficiency.
- System Design and Implementation:
- ○ Design and implement highly scalable, resilient, and performant systems.
- ○ Develop and maintain core infrastructure services, focusing on security, automation, and observability.
- ○ Collaborate closely with product managers, DevOps, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions.
- ○ Drive technical discussions and decisions, ensuring alignment across teams.
- ○ Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts.
- ○ Drive continuous improvement in monitoring, alerting, and operational processes.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience working as a software engineer in backend systems.
- Expertise in designing, delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven proficiency in one of Node.js, or TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of network protocols, operating systems, and database systems.
- Experience mentoring and growing engineers of all levels
- That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
- We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role.
- Minimum requirements
Nice to have
- You have extensive experience working with financial systems.
- You think of yourself as entrepreneurial and enjoy moving quickly.
- You hold yourself and others to a high bar.
- You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise.
- In-depth knowledge of the following technologies: Javascript, Node.js, TypeScript, HTTP, Pub/Sub, SQS, PostgreSQL;
Skills
- Javascript, Node.js, TypeScript, HTTP, Pub/Sub, SQS, PostgreSQL;
- In-depth understanding of Web API standards such as REST, and GraphQL;
- ○ Evaluate and adopt technologies and methodologies to enhance Routefusion's infrastructure capabilities.
- ○ Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, fostering their technical growth.
Benefits
- The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.
Company info
- About Routefusion
- Routefusion is a global financial infrastructure platform for businesses. From late stage high growth fintechs and platforms to early stage upstart neobanks, -use Routefusion to accept and send global bank-to-bank payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to liberate global financial infrastructure for every business, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
- About the team
- Routefusion builds the internet's economic infrastructure, making money transactions easy and connecting the world's economies. We're a small and efficient team. We meet in office a few times a week to whiteboard, collaborate and eat great lunches. We have a hybrid in person culture where we do expect you to come in a few times a week for in person collaboration, but after those meetings we do not care if you are working from home or the beach (if Austin had one...cough cough secret beach**).
- Routefusion is a global financial infrastructure platform for businesses.
- From late stage high growth fintechs and platforms to early stage upstart neobanks, -use Routefusion to accept and send global bank-to-bank payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.
- Our mission is to liberate global financial infrastructure for every business, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead.
- Routefusion builds the internet's economic infrastructure, making money transactions easy and connecting the world's economies.
- We're a small and efficient team.
- We meet in office a few times a week to whiteboard, collaborate and eat great lunches.
- We have a hybrid in person culture where we do expect you to come in a few times a week for in person collaboration, but after those meetings we do not care if you are working from home or the beach (if Austin had one...cough cough secret beach**).
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