Staff Software Engineer Backend
The Cari Network is a bank-governed tokenized deposit network that brings U.S. commercial-bank deposits onchain for real-time, 24/7 programmable payments, built on Matter Labs’ Prividium (ZKsync) and founded by former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency Gene Ludwig.
About Cari Network
The Cari Network is a permissioned, bank-governed network for tokenized deposits, enabling U.S. regional and mid-size banks to issue and move onchain deposit tokens around the clock while keeping them as balance-sheet liabilities inside the regulatory perimeter. Built on Matter Labs’ Prividium (ZKsync), it targets production launch in 2026 with 30+ design-partner banks (Huntington, First Horizon, M&T, KeyBank, Old National, SouthState). Founded by Gene Ludwig; acquired select Tassat technologies in 2026.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You set technical direction for cross-cutting backend platform infrastructure, including durable workflow orchestration, transaction ordering, concurrency control, shared service primitives, and reliability standards. You design multi-service systems, establish tooling and deployment practices, align engineering teams, and identify architectural risks before they cause incidents.
Requirements
- 8–10+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Experience setting technical direction across multiple services or teams
- Expertise in durable workflow or orchestration systems, distributed transaction ordering, or data-consistency guarantees
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript
- Production experience with Effect or a comparable functional effect system preferred
- Experience designing reusable shared platform components
- Experience driving cross-team technical alignment without formal authority
- Knowledge of idempotency, at-least-once delivery, crash recovery, and reconciliation
- Experience in fintech, payments, or regulated financial infrastructure preferred
- Experience with blockchain or custody-adjacent transaction systems preferred
- Experience building internal platform tooling or organization-wide standards preferred
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for backend platform infrastructure
- Design systems spanning multiple services
- Establish cross-service reliability standards
- Build shared tooling, templates, CI patterns, service scaffolding, and observability conventions
- Align engineering teams on shared technical direction
- Represent backend platform engineering in technical planning
- Identify architectural risks before they cause incidents
Benefits
- Equity
- Full medical benefits
- Vision benefits
- Dental benefits
- 401(k) with matching program
- Flexible vacation policy (PTO)
- Remote-first work environment
