Bettermoney
Senior Platform Engineer (Money Movement Systems)
4d ago
USASeniorautomationdistributed systemsintegration testsformal verificationdev infrastructure
Senior Platform Engineer building backend/distributed systems and internal tools for a stablecoin clearinghouse payment system.
About the company
- We believe stablecoins are better money and will be the backbone of better payments. We see key structural problems hindering stablecoin adoption, and we're going to fix them – starting with building a clearinghouse. We're a small, scrappy team (~10 people) based in NYC, we've raised $10M from a16z crypto and other excellent partners, and we're going to bring better money to the world.
Responsibilities
- Help shape how we responsibly bring AI-assisted development into core financial infrastructure, without giving up correctness guarantees.
- Own the test harness for our core systems: integration tests, formal verification, and chaos testing across the ledger, netting algorithm, money movement, and payment ordering.
- Build correctness guarantees that let the rest of the team ship faster. If we can prove it's right, we can move with confidence.
- Design and build internal tools that amplify our productivity.
- Own CI/CD pipelines, dev environments, and deployment infrastructure. Make the path from code to production fast, safe, and boring.
- Instrument our systems with observability like logging, tracing, alerting, so we catch problems before our customers do.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in platform engineering, developer tooling, infrastructure, or reliability engineering.
- Expert in GCP or AWS.
- Comfortable with TypeScript and/or Python.
- NodeJS or similar runtime environments
- PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS
- You've built infrastructure for systems where correctness actually matters: payments, trading, ledgers, or platforms with similar requirements.
- You reason naturally about state, ordering, idempotency, failure modes, and consistency in distributed systems.
- Experience with formal verification, property-based testing, or chaos engineering is a big plus, especially if you've spent time with tools like Temporal or TigerBeetle.
- You have strong opinions about what good internal tooling looks like, and you build it proactively
- You thrive in ambiguity, viewing a lack of specificity as an opportunity for ownership.
Conditions
- We're playing the long-game. We think you should too. This means investing in our employees. We offer comprehensive (and growing) benefits, including:
- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision)
- Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it
- Periodic off-sites
Other
- The next wave of stablecoin adoption is payments. We're building a stablecoin clearinghouse to make stablecoins move like money, not a trading asset. Payments don’t run on trading, but stablecoins currently do, this is unacceptable for traditional payments companies. We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who obsesses over correctness/efficiency and likes to get involved across backend/distributed systems. Help us build the systems that help us build faster with confidence by owning and building internal tools, dev infrastructure, and automation.
- Be offended by the status quo - a payment taking 3 days and costing 3% is offensive. Every day that people interact with legacy financial infrastructure costs humanity time and money. Bring the future forward with righteous indignation.
- Be all over it - operate with extreme urgency and accountability. Know the numbers, meet the right people, answer every email, go the extra mile. Ask yourself: can it be done today?
- We sell trust - trust is easy to lose. Security and integrity are our foundation. Use every interaction and every product as an opportunity to build trust. This is non-negotiable.
- Do the dishes - we are all owners. Put ego aside and get shit done.
- Be the glue - pick each other up and make each other better. Be direct, be helpful, and assume positive intent. Win as a team.
- We enjoy the crucible! We are on a mission to change money. It takes a lot of optimism to attack such an ambitious goal. Our opportunity is a privilege and we don’t forget that. Especially when the journey is hard.
- The Better Money Company is an equal opportunity employer. We are looking for the best!