Senior Typescript Backend Developer @ Striga - Payments Infrastructure for Europe

Striga is a single set of APIs for businesses in Europe to embed regulated & compliant payments infrastructure including crypto custody, trading, banking and card issuing. This means are customers are companies that are building the next Revolut/N26/Coinbase/Kraken/MetaMask etc. Building in the digital asset space in Europe is no longer a walk in the park requiring constant attention to regulatory changes and being the very first company to win a regulatory license after a year long debacle with the Estonian regulator, we’ve built our product from scratch, encompassing the most common traditional finance functions (Issuing Visa cards/IBANs) and critical crypto functions (Creating compliant custody/trading wallets).

We’re growing faster than we can keep up with, have Stripe like ambitions and you’d be one of the earliest engineers in the team working directly with the founder & core team responsible for Striga’s infrastructure to date.

A business like this was practically impossible to build without complying with the law and this presents a unique host of engineering challenges in translating legal text into functional code.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, upgrade and maintain Striga's core banking and ledgering infrastructure - This includes connections to Visa, Banks, Crypto Custodians, Exchanges and challenging day to day logic puzzles in maintaining funding flows within the designated walled garden per user.
• Work closely with the CTO to design and develop distributed, resilient and high-performing backend services.
• Connect with and understand user feedback to iterate and integrate new services into Striga core.
• Build and maintain Striga's internal tooling
• Investigate new technologies and practices.

Requirements:

• Strong Typescript proficiency with demonstrated experience in building and shipping backend infrastructure
• Experience developing distributed, resilient and high-performing backend services using Node.js .
• Familiarity with test driven development and functional programming practices
• Experience with web services (consuming and creating) with REST, gRPC and database drivers for MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Experience working with Digital Ocean, AWS, GCP or similar.
• Experience with Docker, containerizing and CI/CD workflows, would be a great bonus
• Clear written and oral communication, being able to work both independently and collaboratively. We're a small team and do not micro-manage any member. Being able to commit and deliver consistently is a must.

Bonus:

• Entrepreneurship or startup experience.
• Adept at writing technical documentation.
• Experience working with crypto-currencies and/or other legacy financial systems.

Why Striga:

If crypto-currencies and payment systems are things that excite you, this role is for you - We're building the grassroots payments infrastructure for the next 7 billion crypto users, starting with Europe, and growing fast. You'd be one of the first 10 employees at a YC backed company! Not to mention, a fair salary and an opportunity to own a chunk of a fast growing company.