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HoneyCoin

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🤝 B2B

🔥 Funding within the last year

💰 $4.9M Seed Round - HoneyCoin on 2025-08

Fintech • Crypto • B2B

HoneyCoin is a fintech platform that provides infrastructure for international and African-focused payments, wallets, virtual accounts, OTC trading, and stablecoin on/off-ramps. The company offers multi-currency fiat and crypto wallets, virtual cards, bulk payouts, developer APIs and SDKs, fraud monitoring, and same-day settlements—targeting finance and product teams that need to run cross-border payments, payroll, lending, and treasury operations. HoneyCoin supports stablecoins (USDC/USDT) across many African markets (18–21 countries), provides licensed local rails, and positions itself as a regulated, developer-first B2B payments and treasury solution; it also recently closed a $4. 9M funding round.

📋 Description

• Build scalable backend infrastructureDesign, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power HoneyCoin’s core financial products. • Own backend architecture and data modelsDesign schemas and manage transactions, indexing, and performance across relational and NoSQL databases. • Develop and maintain APIsBuild performant REST APIs with caching such as Redis, background workers, third-party integrations, transactional email, analytics, and monitoring. • Background processing and schedulingDesign and maintain reliable background jobs and schedulers for asynchronous and time-based workflows. • Cloud and platform ownershipWork primarily on GCP using services such as Firebase and Firestore. Help define long-term cloud infrastructure and deployment strategy as we scale. • System reliability and performanceEnsure high availability, observability, and resilience across services. • Collaborate cross-functionallyWork closely with frontend engineers, designers, and product to deliver end-to-end features. • Solve complex technical problemsTackle distributed systems, financial workflows, integrations, and real-time data synchronization.

🎯 Requirements

• Senior individual contributor with experience building production-grade backend systems. • 4+ years of backend experience, ideally with Node.js and TypeScript. • Strong understanding of API design, databases, transactions, and performance tuning. • Experience with cloud platforms, preferably GCP. • Familiarity with background jobs, schedulers, and asynchronous systems. • Comfortable working in a fast-moving startup environment with ownership and autonomy. • Strong communication skills and sound engineering judgment. • Pragmatic, detail-oriented, and user-focused.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity with multiple ownership options • Health insurance covered in your local country • Fully distributed team across EMEA time zones • Company off-sites 🏖️ • Hardware setup including a new MacBook and accessories