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Veem

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

💰 $31M Series unknown on 2020-10

Consulting • Logistics • Fintech

Veem is a fintech payments platform that simplifies global payables and receivables for businesses. It provides multi-currency wallets, virtual bank accounts and virtual/virtual debit cards, supports bank transfers, card payments and checks, and offers features like mass pay, payment scheduling, invoice building, pay links, real-time payment tracking and accounting integrations. Veem exposes APIs and embedding options for partners, is licensed and security‑compliant, and targets businesses needing cross-border disbursements and collections across 100+ countries and 80+ currencies.

📋 Description

• Define and drive Veem’s long-term technical architecture across payments, platform, data, integration, and operational systems • Design scalable, resilient, secure, and highly available distributed systems for global B2B payments • Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams and systems • Drive modernization, platform scalability, and technical-debt reduction • Establish standards for architecture, reliability, observability, security, testing, and operational excellence • Lead AI transformation initiatives across engineering and operations • Design and implement AI-agent, LLM, intelligent-automation, and AI-assisted developer-tooling systems • Shape strategy around stablecoins, blockchain, digital assets, and modern payment rails • Evaluate emerging technologies, settlement mechanisms, fintech protocols, and platform investments • Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders • Advise executive and engineering leadership • Translate business priorities into scalable, practical, commercially valuable technical solutions • During the first year, understand Veem’s platform, architecture, customers, payment flows, and business strategy • Establish relationships across Engineering, Product, Security, Compliance, Data, Operations, and executive leadership • Identify architectural risks, constraints, and opportunities • Create technical direction for high-priority initiatives • Lead or materially influence platform, AI, payment, and modernization programs • Improve architecture and technical decision-making consistency • Introduce AI capabilities improving engineering productivity or operational performance • Define Veem’s technical approach to stablecoins and emerging payment infrastructure • Deliver measurable improvements in scalability, reliability, developer productivity, or platform capability

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 12–18 years of software engineering experience • Staff+, Senior Staff, Principal Engineer, Architect, or equivalent-level experience • Deep expertise in distributed systems, backend architecture, APIs, microservices, cloud infrastructure, and event-driven systems • Strong hands-on software engineering and architecture capabilities • Experience leading technically complex initiatives across multiple teams • Ability to influence technical strategy without direct authority • Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or another high-scale, highly regulated technology environment • Understanding of scalability, data consistency, reliability, security, fault tolerance, and production operations • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain technical trade-offs to executive and non-technical audiences • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous, entrepreneurial environment • Preferred: B2B or cross-border payments experience • Preferred: payment processing, settlement, reconciliation, ledgering, treasury, foreign exchange, or financial APIs • Preferred: AI agents, LLM integrations, intelligent automation, machine learning platforms, or AI-enabled products • Preferred: stablecoins, blockchain infrastructure, digital wallets, crypto payments, or digital assets • Preferred: experience at a modern fintech, payments, technology, or AI-native organization • Technical environment includes AWS, GCP, or Azure; distributed and event-driven architectures; backend platforms, APIs, microservices; messaging, streaming, and data systems; AI/LLM tooling; blockchain, stablecoin, and payment infrastructure; observability, reliability, security, and platform tooling

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity participation • Competitive compensation • Opportunity to work on AI, stablecoins, blockchain, and emerging financial technology • Executive visibility and influence on long-term product and technology direction • Hands-on technical impact • Entrepreneurial environment • Opportunity to mentor and develop senior engineering talent