Founding Engineer
Super3ank, Inc., operating as Sugar, provides revolving credit and liquidity to fintech companies. Its services help neobanks, remittance companies, payment infrastructure providers, and credit fintechs eliminate or reduce pre-funding and reserve capital requirements through credit lines and API-based borrowing.
About Super3ank, Inc.
Super3ank operates Sugar, a software-as-a-service platform that provides up to $25 million in credit for fintech pre-funding, settlement reserves, bank sponsorship requirements, card and BIN programs, FX, stablecoin payments, real-time payments, and credit sponsorship. Its products include auto-renewing lines of credit and credit accessed through an API or user interface, with flexible repayment terms, interest-only payments, and scalable credit limits. The company serves neobanks, remittance fintechs, card and fiat/stablecoin payment infrastructure providers, consumer and SMB credit fintechs, and other businesses requiring reserve capital or pre-funding.
Skills
About the Role
Sugar is seeking a Founding Engineer to make foundational architecture decisions, ship secure and scalable production systems, build financial and crypto infrastructure integrations, and help shape the technical roadmap and future engineering team.
Requirements
- At least five years of professional software engineering experience.
- Strong recent experience building and operating production systems with TypeScript and JavaScript.
- Meaningful professional experience in both crypto and fintech environments.
- Experience at venture-backed companies between Seed and Series C.
- Strong backend or full-stack fundamentals, including API design, integrations, and data modelling.
- Experience owning technically complex products from architecture through production.
- Sound judgment around security, reliability, and data integrity.
- High agency and comfort working without extensive process, documentation, or management layers.
- A product-minded approach and ability to balance speed with engineering discipline.
- Experience with credit, lending, payments, banking, treasury, ledgers, reconciliation, transaction processing, stablecoins, wallets, custody, on-chain payments, risk, underwriting, fraud, identity, or compliance systems is useful.
- Experience building an early-stage product or engineering function, or hiring, mentoring, or leading engineers, is useful.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate Sugar’s core systems using TypeScript and JavaScript.
- Establish engineering standards and best practices across the codebase.
- Take products from concept through architecture, implementation, and production.
- Build integrations with financial, banking, payments, and crypto infrastructure.
- Develop systems handling sensitive financial data and business-critical transactions.
- Translate commercial and customer requirements into product with the founders.
- Shape the technical roadmap and help grow the engineering team.
- Move quickly while maintaining strong standards for financial infrastructure.