Senior Software Engineer Technical Leadership Platform
Cyclops provides crypto and stablecoin infrastructure exclusively for payments companies. Its platform supports settlement, payins, payouts, treasury management, and custom payment solutions through a unified integration.
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About Cyclops
Cyclops is a payments infrastructure company offering stablecoin and fiat settlement, crypto acceptance, payouts, treasury management, virtual accounts, custody, compliance, liquidity, FX conversion, and wallet infrastructure. Its API-based platform is designed for PSPs, payment networks, orchestrators, gateways, acquirers, PayFacs, and ISOs, supporting operations across more than 150 countries and 400+ assets.
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About the Role
You will shape the technical foundation of a crypto payment platform through system design, reliability engineering, and long-term platform evolution. You will own complex backend work, identify architectural and scalability risks, lead technical relationships with partners, design failure-handling mechanisms, improve observability, validate integrations, and mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and documentation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional backend development experience
- Deep hands-on experience building and operating crypto infrastructure
- Experience with custody, wallets, exchanges, payments, or settlement systems
- Strong TypeScript and Node.js backend expertise
- Deep distributed system design experience
- Knowledge of microservices, service boundaries, data models, REST APIs, API contracts, queues, and asynchronous communication
- Production experience with incident response, debugging, API failures, and data issues
- Experience owning services from design through production support
- Excellent PostgreSQL knowledge and understanding of other storage types
- Experience with reliability, observability, and production incident investigation
- Daily use of AI coding tools and critical code review
- Ability to mentor senior engineers and evaluate trade-offs
- High agency and practical problem-solving ability
- Excellent written and verbal English communication
Responsibilities
- Design and evolve core platform services
- Identify architectural risks and scalability limits
- Propose incremental improvement and migration paths
- Lead partner solution reviews and troubleshooting
- Document technical decisions and integration details
- Design retry, timeout, idempotency, degraded-mode, and fallback mechanisms
- Improve metrics, logs, tracing, and operational visibility
- Analyze production incidents
- Build proofs of concept and validate integrations
- Analyze vendor APIs and integration flows
- Implement complex backend components with TypeScript and Node.js
- Conduct code reviews and decompose complex problems
- Share knowledge through pairing and documentation
Benefits
- Flexible work schedule as an independent contractor
- Company-issued laptop
- Technology accessories
- Annual in-person full-team meetup