Own meaningful backend initiatives end-to-end: from scoping through shipping and iteration
Enhance and extend our existing financial engine with new functionality, reporting capabilities, and deeper system interconnectivity
Ship customer-facing value quickly without compromising correctness or trust
Design and evolve APIs that power reporting, insights, and client-facing product experiences
Improve performance, observability, and resilience across core systems
Contribute to forward-looking architecture (e.g., multi-currency, multi-entity) where thoughtful design today unlocks scale tomorrow
Partner with Product, Data, and Design to turn complex accounting workflows into scalable, high-leverage solutions that meaningfully accelerate customer outcomes
Raise the technical bar through thoughtful design reviews, high-quality code, and proactive mentorship — amplifying team velocity and impact, not just your own output

8+ years building and scaling complex backend systems in production
Deep experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and data modeling
Strong database design skills (SQL required; analytics or NoSQL a plus)
Experience with financial systems, ledgers, or fintech infrastructure
or strong familiarity with accounting principles a big plus
You’ve worked in multi-language production environments and can navigate unfamiliar parts of the stack
You design systems where outputs are correct, explainable, and reproducible
especially when financial accuracy matters
Other engineers trust your systems and build on top of them
High Agency
you pick up ambiguous projects, define the path forward, and execute with minimal handholding
Good judgment
you know what to prioritize, what tradeoffs to make, and when to slow down or speed up
You care about long-term system integrity, not just closing tickets
Strong communicator who can align stakeholders and bring engineers along without relying on process to do it for you.

Staff Software Engineer – Ledger

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