Senior Platform Engineer (Money Movement Systems)

The role

This person will build internal tools, dev infrastructure, and automation to help the team build faster with confidence. They will own money movement correctness, the trust layer for AI-assisted development, observability, load and performance, and the path to production.

What you will do

• Ensure correctness of money movement including ledger, netting, routing, and payment ordering
• Build a reliability layer for banks, custodians, exchanges, and issuers
• Extend the trust layer for AI-assisted development including verification and guardrails
• Maintain a fast-growing codebase
• Develop observability, alerts, and telemetry
• Own load and performance testing and capacity modeling
• Build internal tools, admin surfaces, and automation
• Manage the path to production including CI/CD, environments, deploys, and rollback

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, developer tooling, infrastructure, or reliability engineering on systems where mistakes were expensive
• Deep production TypeScript in a codebase large enough that types and module boundaries mattered
• Relational data modeling and migrations under production constraints
• Postgres or equivalent
• Node.js fluency
• GCP or AWS
• Reasoning about state, ordering, idempotency, failure modes, and consistency
• Experience building resilience around unreliable third-party APIs
• Experience owning the path from code to production and instrumenting it
• A real practice around AI-assisted engineering
• Ability to build internal tools without being asked

Nice to have

• Ledgers or double-entry systems
• Payments, trading, or regulated infrastructure
• Durable workflow orchestration (Temporal, Cadence, sagas)
• Terraform and infrastructure-as-code ownership
• Property-based testing, fuzzing, or fault injection
• TigerBeetle
• Build systems and CI performance work
• Load and performance engineering
• Security-minded platform work in a SOC 2 environment
• Crypto experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive insurance (medical, dental, vision)
• Unlimited vacation
• Periodic off-sites

About the company

bettermoney is a small, scrappy team of approximately 10 people based in NYC. They have raised $10M from a16z crypto and other partners to build a stablecoin clearinghouse.