About Us

We're a venture-backed startup headquartered in downtown Palo Alto, preparing for a public launch later in 2026. Backed by leading institutional investors and strategic angels, we're building a verified operating system designed to run at national scale. Our platform brings together digital identity, secure communication, modern money movement, and intelligence-driven services in a single system. Built on modern financial rails and applied AI, it supports real-world use cases such as payments, remittances, and digital services - designed for reliability, security, and scale. We're starting with deployments across markets where modern infrastructure meets real operational demand, and expanding globally from there. Initial institutional deployments are underway, with commercial agreements in place and revenue already being realized. If you're motivated by building durable systems and shaping the next generation of digital infrastructure, we'd love to build with you.

The Opportunity

We're seeking Backend Engineers to help build and scale the core backend systems of our platform. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership of complex systems, and enjoy shaping technical direction while still shipping production code. You'll work closely with founding engineers and product partners to design, implement, and evolve distributed backend services that must be secure, reliable, and performant at national scale. Depending on experience, you may own specific subsystems, contribute to architectural decisions, and help establish engineering best practices as the team grows. This role offers the opportunity to apply strong engineering fundamentals in a fast-moving startup environment, with scope and responsibility matched to experience and clear room to grow.

What You Will Own

You'll take end-to-end ownership of key backend and platform domains, from design through production operation and iteration. Scope and responsibility will be matched to experience.

Backend Systems & Service Development

-Design, build, and operate scalable backend services using Java and Spring Boot, with a focus on correctness, performance, and maintainability.

-Contribute to system architecture decisions, collaborating with peers to ensure services scale cleanly from early adoption to large-scale usage.

-Write high-quality, production-ready code with clear ownership of service health, performance, and reliability.

Data, APIs, and Distributed Systems

-Design and evolve data models and access patterns using relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and, where appropriate, distributed databases.

-Build and maintain event-driven systems (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) to support reliable asynchronous communication between services.

-Own and improve internal and external APIs (REST and/or gRPC), ensuring clarity, backward compatibility, and long-term extensibility.

-Partner closely with product, frontend, and mobile teams to define efficient, evolvable API contracts that support high-quality user experiences.

Reliability, Quality, and Engineering Excellence

-Drive service reliability through thoughtful design, monitoring, and testing (unit, integration, performance).

-Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response, applying learnings to improve system resilience and developer experience.

-Use AI-assisted development tools to improve velocity, code quality, and documentation, and help establish effective team workflows.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

-Contribute to a strong backend engineering culture through code reviews, design feedback, and knowledge sharing.

-Help define and reinforce backend engineering best practices with an emphasis on ownership, pragmatism, and continuous improvement.

-Collaborate closely with product, frontend, mobile, and infrastructure partners to deliver cohesive end-to-end systems.

What You Bring

Why Join Us

Work That Matters

You'll help build critical financial and digital infrastructure that makes systems safer, faster, and more transparent at scale.

Frontier Problems

We operate at the intersection of identity, communities, modern money movement, and agent-driven services—complex, regulated domains that remain largely unsolved.

Global from Day One

Built in Silicon Valley and deployed across borders. What we ship has the potential to become core infrastructure for entire nations.

Real Ownership

You'll own clearly defined product and technical domains end to end, from strategy through execution and outcomes.

High-Agency Culture

High trust, low process, fast iteration. We value technical excellence and people who take initiative and act with ownership.

What We Offer

Compensation That Reflects Impact

Highly competitive salary plus meaningful equity, designed for people who want real ownership—not just upside.

Comprehensive Health Coverage

Top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.

In-Person First

We work from the office three days a week to move fast and build together, with quarterly in-person all-hands.

Wellness Covered

Company-paid Equinox fitness membership to support wellbeing.

Meals Provided

All meals and beverages are covered on in-office days.

Commute Supported

Bay Area commuting expenses covered, including FasTrak, Caltrain, and BART.

Flexible Time Off

Flexible PTO with no preset cap—balanced by ownership, accountability, and outcomes.

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