Staff Software Engineer - Backend

String Technology • Full-time • Remote • $60k - $170k / year • 3w ago

Staff Software Engineer - Backend Remote / Engineering – Backend / Fulltime / Remote Apply for this job String - Embedded Payments for Web3 Gaming. String is building the first embedded payment suite designed and tailored for Web3 Gaming. Our developer suite helps game devs build truly immersive experiences and provide integrated fiat payment options without ever sending users to a centralized exchange or to sign up for a third-party on-ramp. We re looking to add the next member of our core team of crypto-native engineers, payments nerds, regulatory experts, user experience maximalists passionate about building a key piece of crypto infrastructure. Job Description String is looking for a Lead/Staff/Principal Software Engineer with significant backend experience to build key parts of our payments infrastructure. We re building out architecture to delight developers and end-users with performant systems, fast decision engines, and intuitive documentation. We re a startup with an exciting roadmap ahead of us and a ton of opportunity and ownership available. You ll be one of the first dozen employees at a company looking to enable the UX to bring crypto to the masses through Web3 games. Role Specifics Develop our core functionality — build out the architecture, systems, and services that optimize the performance, security, and reliability of our product; Design important aspects of a configurable, flexible developer API that embeds payments in immersive game environments; Integrate the third party tools that form parts of our data pipelines and decision engines; Help set the tone as an early member of the engineering team to establish culture, practices, and standards; Collaborate and share — our team works closely together to ensure we rapidly deliver quality code, with a consistent style, all while sharing our respective knowledge. Qualifications You re deeply interested in and engaged by crypto and Web3. You re interested in working at an early stage startup and all that comes with it. You re willing to take ownership of large responsibilities and ship code, fast. 7+ years of backend developer experience. Familiarity with any of Golang, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Terraform, or any of their analogs is a plus. Bonus if you have experience in payments, fintech, or developer tools. You take your work seriously, but you don t take yourself too seriously. You have good vibes and being in a good-vibes environment is important to you. Apply for this job When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely. This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they are human RMTYyLjI0NC4xNDcuNgM