Lead Engineer (Equity Role)
About Us
We are building the rails for global commerce. We are pre-launch and operating in stealth, but backed by experienced founders and with deep partnerships already in place. From cross-border B2B payments to gift card infrastructure, we're solving the hardest problem in emerging & frontier markets: reliable access to money. We're looking for our first Lead Engineer to help us transform prototypes into hardened, production ready platforms on which we can grow.
The Role
You'll be the first dedicated engineering hire, working alongside our Technical Director (systems & infra) and founders. This is a hands-on role: expect to design, code, and ship products, while also laying the technical foundations for scale.
You'll start by wiring together critical integrations and quickly move into building our own APIs, merchant dashboards, and developer tools. Over time, you'll lead productisation: full native platform builds, ecosystem integrations and stablecoin rails.
What You'll Do (first 12 months)
* B2B platform: finalise go-live wiring (SSO, merchant onboarding, settlements, dashboards), then lead full API integration.
* B2C gift card platform: build branded store website + multi-tenant gift card theming.
* B2B Invoicing: turn prototype into enterprise-grade product: secure invoicing, webhooks, reconciliation, accounting integrations.
* B2B Core: ship unified merchant platform, public APIs, sandbox, and dev portal; integrate fraud monitoring.
* Future rails: design stablecoin settlement "sandwiches" (Ripple, Tempo, GCUL) and integrate them into our APIs.
* Settlement & reconciliation tools to automate payouts and ledger entries.
* Billing and usage tracking across multiple products.
* Internal reporting systems to give founders and partners real-time visibility on volumes, revenues, and costs.
Who You Are
* 5+ years backend/software engineering, ideally in fintech or SaaS.
* Skilled in designing and consuming APIs (REST, GraphQL, webhooks).
* Strong in or Python; bonus if comfortable in both.
* Experience with cloud infra (GCP/AWS), Docker, SQL + NoSQL.
* You care about security: PCI/PII handling, OAuth2, multi-tenant isolation.
* Pragmatic: you can ship scrappy MVPs, but know how to harden for scale.
* Comfortable dipping into modern frontend ) when needed.
* Excited by payments, money movement, and global commerce.
The Offer
Equity: 2–4% ownership (standard 4-year vesting, 1-year cliff).
Compensation: low cash to start, scaling with funding.
Impact: co-founder level influence on product, architecture, and culture.
Location: primarily remote, with occasional hybrid working for strategy sessions and key milestones.
Why Join Us?
You'll be the engineer who built the rails of a global fintech platform. This is not just a coding job, it's a chance to design, own, and scale systems that will process millions of transactions across continents. If you've ever wanted to turn complex integrations into a cohesive platform at startup speed, this is your shot.