Principal Software Engineer, CTO Office
Utila provides secure, scalable stablecoin and digital-asset infrastructure for fintechs, banks, payment firms, and enterprises.
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About Utila
Utila operates an institutional digital-asset platform centered on MPC wallet infrastructure, APIs, governance controls, multichain support, stablecoin payments, treasury operations, trading workflows, and tokenization.
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About the Role
You'll help shape the architecture, security, and technical foundations of the platform, working directly with the CTO and engineering leadership. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role with company-wide technical influence. You'll tackle hard problems in distributed systems, core product architecture, and infrastructure security, prototype solutions, write production code, and drive initiatives through implementation and operation. You'll also mentor senior engineers and collaborate with backend, cryptography, DevOps, and security teams.
Requirements
- Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and operating complex production software systems
- Deep understanding of backend engineering, distributed systems, and software architecture
- Strong architectural judgment and ability to tackle ambiguous problems
- Security-first mindset, including threat models, trust boundaries, and attack surfaces
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, system security, identity, authentication, or authorization
- Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives across teams without formal authority
- Strong independent research and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills
Responsibilities
- Drive critical architecture decisions across backend services, APIs, distributed systems, and data infrastructure
- Solve core product challenges in transaction processing, blockchain integrations, data consistency, and scalability
- Challenge assumptions and research alternative approaches
- Engineer security by design, strengthening transaction authorization, signing workflows, identity, access control, and trust boundaries
- Strengthen cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline, and software supply chain security
- Build automation, reusable infrastructure, and engineering tooling
- Stay hands-on designing, prototyping, implementing, and troubleshooting critical components
- Mentor senior engineers and serve as technical thought partner to the CTO and tech leads
- Advance engineering practices, including AI-assisted engineering workflows
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule
- On-site gym
- Dog-friendly office
- Dedicated parking