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Key Responsibilities
- Build and operate backend services in Node.js/TypeScript with PostgreSQL at scale.
- Design APIs that power financial transactions, ensuring idempotency, reliability, and developer-friendly integration.
- Architect solutions for complex challenges across payments, ledgering, and reconciliation.
- Lead feature delivery, from design through implementation, testing, and deployment.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, and infra teams to align system design with business priorities.
- Review code and mentor peers, raising the engineering bar across the team.
- Investigate and resolve production issues with a focus on root cause prevention.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of backend software engineering experience. Strong expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
- Proven experience building APIs that power financial or transactional systems.
- Understanding of payments, fintech, or other transaction-heavy domains.
- Experience designing for scalability, reliability, and fault tolerance.
- Familiarity with distributed systems concepts (idempotency, concurrency, data integrity).Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with blockchain development (e.g., smart contracts, wallets, tokenization).Extensive fintech experience.
- Experience building or operating payments systems, including transaction lifecycles, retries, idempotency, and failure handling.
- Familiarity with ledgers, reconciliation, settlement, and FX flows in cross-border financial systems.
- Understanding of payment rails (e.g., ACH, wires, SEPA, SWIFT, cards) and their operational and regulatory tradeoffs.
- Experience designing client-facing APIs with a strong focus on correctness, backward compatibility, clear contracts, and developer experience.
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What We Do
Conduit is building the infrastructure layer for the next generation of global payments. Cross-border money movement is one of the most complex, fragmented, and underserved problems in financial services — and we're solving it at the infrastructure level, for the fintechs, PSPs, and financial institutions that power global commerce. We believe in a world of fair economic opportunity, where global commerce can flourish through the frictionless exchange of value. Our first steps toward that vision are enabling drastically faster, cheaper, and more reliable transactions for businesses in emerging markets — and we're backed by investors who share that conviction, including Dragonfly, Circle, and Coinbase. We're here to build, and we mean that. We empower our team to act like founders, make bold decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. If you're energized by hard problems, big markets, and real ownership over your work, you'll fit right in.
Why Work With Us
Cross-border payments infrastructure is broken — Conduit is fixing it. We've built a genuinely differentiated product in a market without a clear winner, and we're scaling fast. Join a team where autonomy is real, ownership is expected, and your impact is visible from day one.
