Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer / Technical Lead.

<div><span style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(79, 129, 189); margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 4pt;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer / Technical Lead</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Aptos; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">San Francisco | Full-Time | In Office</span></p><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: -5.75pt;"><table style="border: medium;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(238, 243, 248); padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experience</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7–10 years</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(238, 243, 248); padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">San Francisco, CA – in office</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(238, 243, 248); padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visa</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sponsorship / H-1B transfer support available</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(238, 243, 248); padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Relocation</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Available; expected timeline typically 1–2 months</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(238, 243, 248); padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 4.5pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Immediate preferred; notice periods can be accommodated</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the Company</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 7pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Our client is a well-funded, senior-only San Francisco team led by founders with successful exits. The company is building next-generation consumer finance infrastructure for emerging markets, combining virtual banking, stablecoin and cryptocurrency wallet capabilities, and cross-border money movement in one secure platform.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The mission is to make global financial services faster, more accessible, and more reliable for people who are underserved by traditional banking systems. This is an early-stage environment where engineers can have immediate impact and help shape the product and technical direction from the ground up.</span></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Role</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is a hands-on technical leadership role for an engineering generalist who can work across backend, web, mobile, infrastructure, security, and architecture. You will work directly with the founders, make key architecture decisions, set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and lead delivery of a secure, reliable product handling real-money movement at international scale.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><br></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What You Will Do</span></h1><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Define and evolve system architecture across backend, web, mobile, infrastructure, security, and data.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Build and ship a high-quality consumer financial product from the ground up.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Make technical trade-offs around scalability, latency, reliability, compliance, data integrity, and security.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Set engineering standards for architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and production reliability.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mentor engineers, review technical decisions, and help grow a high-performing engineering team.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Partner closely with Product, Design, Operations, and the founders to translate product goals into technical execution.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Own outcomes across multiple layers of the stack rather than operating as a narrow frontend or backend specialist.</span></p></li></ul><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technology Environment</span></h1><div align="left" dir="ltr" style="margin-left: -5.75pt;"><table style="border: medium;"><tbody><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 250); padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Backend</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Python + FastAPI; strong candidates may also come from Go or Java backgrounds</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 250); padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Web</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">React + TypeScript</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 250); padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mobile</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">iOS / Swift and Android / Kotlin understanding; deep mobile specialization is not required</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 250); padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Database</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">PostgreSQL – strong data modeling, query optimization, transactions, and scaling</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 250); padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cloud</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AWS, containers, deployment pipelines, monitoring, security, and modern CI/CD</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height: 0pt;"><td style="vertical-align: top; background-color: rgb(245, 247, 250); padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Core Engineering</span></p></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding: 4pt 5.75pt; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">APIs, distributed systems, scalability, reliability, system design, and secure financial infrastructure</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What Success Looks Like</span></h1><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You think like a builder and product owner, not just a feature implementer.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can see the whole system, explain trade-offs clearly, and make decisions without constant direction.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You are comfortable leading technically while remaining close to implementation and code quality.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You thrive in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and direct founder interaction.</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;"><br></p><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What We Are Looking For</span></h1><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">7–10 years of experience building and shipping consumer-facing mobile and/or web products.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meaningful full-stack breadth, with strong backend foundations and enough frontend/mobile knowledge to lead cross-platform discussions.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strong system design and architecture experience across APIs, distributed systems, databases, scalability, and reliability.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hands-on technical leadership experience: architecture reviews, technical decision-making, mentoring, code reviews, and engineering standards.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strong PostgreSQL fundamentals, including data modeling, transaction handling, query optimization, and scale.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experience with AWS and modern cloud engineering practices such as containers, CI/CD, monitoring, deployment pipelines, and security.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with founders, engineers, and product teams.</span></p></li></ul><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Strongly Preferred</span></h1><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FinTech experience in payments, wallets, banking, stablecoins, crypto, remittance, or other financial platforms.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Startup experience, especially Seed to Series B/C, with evidence of building from scratch, working in small teams, and owning outcomes.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experience building high-growth consumer products at scale.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Experience building products for Latin American or other emerging markets.</span></p></li></ul><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What We Offer</span></h1><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; "><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Day 1 impact on a rapidly scaling consumer finance product.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opportunity to shape the technical vision, architecture, engineering culture, and team as the company grows.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: "><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Visa sponsorship / H-1B transfer support and relocation assistance available.</span></p></li></ul><h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; border-bottom-width: 1pt; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(217, 226, 243); margin-top: 8pt; margin-bottom: 5pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 6pt;"><span style="font-size: 15pt; font-family: Play, sans-serif; color: rgb(23, 54, 93); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Interview Process</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stage 1:&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical phone interview with a short coding challenge.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stage 2:&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Optional additional technical conversation if further validation is needed.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.26; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 3pt;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stage 3:&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Aptos; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3-hour in-person interview in San Francisco, including a comprehensive live coding exercise. Travel reimbursement is available if required.</span></p></span></div><div><br></div>