Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cyclops is the first stablecoin and crypto infrastructure platform built exclusively for the payments industry. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a Technical Leadership / Platform specialization to focus on system design, reliability, and long-term platform evolution, while also taking ownership of complex backend work and acting as a technical representative for API/SDK integrations.
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve core platform services, focusing on reliability, data integrity, and clear service boundaries aligned with business requirements
- Identify architectural risks, scalability limits, and weak points before they become production issues; recognize when existing tools (queues, storage, frameworks) reach their limits and propose pragmatic, incremental improvement or migration paths
- Own the technical relationship with partners as the primary technical point of contact: lead solution reviews, troubleshooting, and roadmap alignment; document technical decisions and integration details; ensure partners understand expectations, timelines, and constraints
- Design and improve reliability mechanisms: retries and backoff, timeouts and idempotency, handling of partial failures, degraded and fallback modes
- Drive improvements in observability (metrics, logs, tracing, operational visibility) and participate in production incident analysis
- Contribute during the Discovery stage of projects: build PoCs, validate ideas, analyze third-party vendor APIs and proposed integration flows
- Implement the most complex and high-risk backend components using TypeScript and Node.js, owning correctness under partial failure scenarios
- Raise the overall technical maturity of the team, including senior engineers: thoughtful code reviews, decomposition of large or ambiguous problems, knowledge sharing through pairing and documentation
Skills
- 6+ years of professional backend development experience
- Deep hands-on experience building and operating crypto infrastructure: custody, wallets, exchange, payment, or settlement systems. You have designed and run production systems that move real funds. Integrating a crypto API into an existing product, or building UI on top of one, does not meet this bar
- Strong backend expertise in TypeScript and Node.js
- Deep experience in distributed system design: microservices architecture, service boundaries and data models, REST APIs and API contracts, queues and asynchronous communication
- Hands-on production experience: incident response, debugging, API failures, data issues
- Experience owning services end-to-end, from design to production support
- Excellent knowledge of SQL (PostgreSQL) and understanding of other storage types
- Strong reliability mindset and experience with failure scenarios; experience improving observability and investigating production incidents
- Proficient daily use of AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Copilot), with the ability to review AI-generated code quickly and critically
- Ability to mentor engineers, including senior-level, and to evaluate trade-offs and propose practical solutions
- High agency: you treat problems in your scope as yours by default, act before being asked, and escalate with a proposed plan when a decision is above your level
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical and business conversations; strong written and verbal English
- Experience leading architecture work across timezones in a distributed team
- Experience in regulated financial environments (licensing, audits, compliance-driven engineering requirements)
- Experience with queues and event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.)
- Redis or other in-memory data stores
- Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS (user-level understanding)
- Experience shaping team practices around AI-assisted development
Benefits
- Company issued laptop
- Technology Accessories
- Annual In-Person Full-Team Meetup
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