Staff Software Engineer
storm2Bel Air (MD)
About the role
⚡ Senior / Staff Software Engineer – Series B FinTech🌍 Flatiron, NYC | 4 days in-office💲 Up to $360k base The Company Storm2’s client is a Series B FinTech with $80M raised and an established product, now building out its core engineering team in New York. There’s serious capital behind the business, but it’s still early enough that a handful of engineers will make decisions that materially shape the product and architecture.
The Role:
- A lot of Staff roles give you influence by taking you further away from the code. This one doesn’t.
- They want engineers who can make architectural decisions, own difficult problems end-to-end and still build. You’ll work close to the product and business, with enough autonomy that the expectation is to define solutions rather than simply execute against somebody else’s design.
- For the right engineer, that means startup-level ownership without joining at the point where product-market fit and funding are still open questions.
- What you’ll be working on:
- Building core systems and products as the company scales
- Owning architecture and implementation end-to-end
- Solving scalability, reliability and system design problems
- Working directly with product and commercial stakeholders
- Setting technical standards as the engineering organisation grows
What you’ll bring:
- Senior or Staff-level software engineering experience
- Strong production engineering and system design fundamentals
- Evidence of owning complex software from idea through production
- Comfort operating in high-autonomy, fast-moving teams
FinTech, payments, banking or financial infrastructure experience is valuable, but strong high-growth technology backgrounds are relevant too$80M raised. Up to $360k base. Meaningful technical ownership.
The trade-off is straightforward: this is a four-day-a-week office environment in Flatiron. If you want fully remote, it isn’t the one. If you want to work closely with a strong engineering team and have genuine influence over what gets built, it probably warrants a conversation.📧 Click ‘Easy Apply’ or email ⚡ Storm2 is a specialist FinTech recruitment firm with clients across Europe, APAC, and North America. Visit storm2.com or follow us on LinkedIn for the latest roles and intel.
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