Infinite
Founding Engineer
San Francisco, CA, US · Not specified
- Annual base salary
- $108k – $230k USD
- Equity
- Not disclosed
- Commitment
- Full Time
- Company stage
- Not disclosed
Compensation as listed
$108K - $230K • 0.25% - 1.00%
About Infinite
Infinite is a global payments processor powered by stablecoins, making it simple to move money on the internet. We offer businesses turnkey APIs and SDKs to move money cross-border same-day with low fees, all without crypto complexity. We’re building this platform to solve pain points we have experienced for decades while building traditional financial products at scale.
Company overview
The opportunity
As our Founding Engineer, you will define, build, and maintain the technical foundation of our platform. You will join us in-person in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment where you will take ownership of everything, from architecture and implementation to production reliability for mission-critical services. You will partner directly with founders and early customers to translate real-world requirements into robust, high-quality products.
Key responsibilities
- Full Stack & End-to-End – Design, implement, and operate complete services and user-facing features, from requirements gathering through production support
- System Design & Architecture – Develop highly available, event-driven systems for ledgering, compliance, and risk that scale with transaction volume while maintaining zero downtime
- Implementation Engineering – Embed with customers, collect feedback, and iterate rapidly to ensure our roadmap aligns with user needs
- Technical Decision-Making – Balance speed and long-term scalability, selecting appropriate technologies (Next.js/TypeScript, C#, Go, Python, modern cloud infrastructure) for each problem domain
Required skills & experiences
- 5–10+ years of professional software engineering, including the delivery of 0-to-1 products and scaling them in production
- Proficiency in at least two of: Next.js/TypeScript, C#, Go, Python
- Hands-on expertise with asynchronous and event-driven architectures
- Full-stack ownership spanning modern front-end frameworks, back-end services, and cloud infrastructure
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to influence internal and external cross-functional stakeholders
Preferred qualifications
- Proven expertise with AI-assisted development tools—especially Cursor or windsurf, to accelerate code generation, refactoring, and automated test creation
- Practical experience deploying lightweight machine-learning models for real-time anomaly detection, automated compliance reporting, or incident triage in production systems
- Experience designing and contributing to fintech, payments, or ledgering systems (e.g., double-entry ledgers, payments, clearing, or settlement)
- Experience integrating banking, payments, or compliance providers, or a demonstrated ability to onboard unfamiliar financial APIs quickly
- Prior leadership or mentorship in a high-growth engineering team
Ideal candidate
The ideal candidate is a passionate and driven engineer with a hacker's mindset. You are comfortable both leading a team and being hands-on with code. You thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to tackle complex challenges that drive our company's success.
Technology
Infinite enables businesses to leverage stablecoins as a settlement network (a la SWIFT) to process cross-border payments; for example:
- Bank to Bank — US bank -> International bank (eg. US to LATAM), allowing businesses to send local currency payments with instant settlement in LATAM, Europe, Africa, and SEA
- Bank to Wallet — US bank -> User wallet, allowing businesses to send USD stablecoin payouts globally and instantly
- Embedded SDK — Embedded wallet and hosted links experience for payment beneficiaries to seamlessly receive and manage stablecoin payments without dealing with crypto complexity
- Treasury Yield — Store balances in USD-denominated stablecoins and earn a competitive yield
Source: Y Combinator. Confirm availability with the employer.
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