Founding Engineer

🕒 September 9

🌐 South Africa, Pakistan, +1 more countries – Remote

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote 🇵🇰 Pakistan – Remote 🇵🇭 Philippines – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥 Software Engineer

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Huzzle.com

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

💰 $1.8M Pre Seed Round - Huzzle on 2024-04

Recruitment • HR Tech • SaaS

Huzzle. com is an AI-native hiring platform that connects companies with pre-vetted, remote talent—especially sales and go-to-market roles—through a streamlined sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and payroll workflow. The platform uses AI-driven candidate search and automated interviews (with expert review) to surface high-quality candidates quickly, then handles contracts, onboarding, and cross-border payroll and compliance so employers can hire globally in days. It also offers a candidate-facing experience that matches applicants to remote roles after a single 20-minute interview and provides a curated talent marketplace.

📋 Description

• Architect and build core financial infrastructure, including accounts, balances, ledgers, KYC/KYB workflows, transaction state machines, and reconciliation systems • Design and implement integrations with regulated banking partners, card issuers, payment providers, and payment rails including ACH, wires, international payments, and FX • Build provider-independent architecture supporting multiple banks and financial infrastructure partners • Develop secure, reliable financial APIs and data models for complex transaction and money-movement workflows • Build asynchronous systems involving queues, events, retries, idempotency, exception handling, and transaction processing • Develop card issuing and card management integrations alongside multi-currency and FX functionality • Build internal operations, compliance, permissions, limits, and approval tooling • Own systems and features end-to-end from architecture and database design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production operation • Work directly with founders to translate business and product requirements into pragmatic technical solutions • Establish engineering standards and technical foundations for the future engineering team • Take initiative in ambiguous situations and independently identify solutions to complex technical and product problems

🎯 Requirements

• 3–8+ years of professional software engineering experience with excellent backend or full-stack fundamentals • Strong hands-on experience building production-grade APIs, backend services, and distributed systems • Proven experience working on complex systems where reliability, consistency, and data integrity are critical • Strong database architecture, data modeling, and system design skills • Experience with asynchronous workflows, including queues, events, retries, idempotency, and failure handling • Strong engineering judgment and the ability to balance speed, scalability, reliability, and maintainability • Demonstrated experience owning technical systems or major product areas end-to-end • Strong product instincts and an ability to translate ambiguous requirements into working software • Comfortable operating in a fast-moving, early-stage or 0→1 environment • A natural technical leader who takes initiative without needing a large team or established processes • Highly hands-on and genuinely excited to continue writing and shipping production code • Significant hands-on experience within fintech, neobanking, banking infrastructure, payments, or financial technology (nice-to-have) • Experience building core banking, payment, ledger, card, FX, reconciliation, or money-movement infrastructure (nice-to-have) • Previous experience as an individual contributor or technical lead at a leading fintech, neobank, payments company, or financial infrastructure provider (nice-to-have) • Background at companies similar to Revolut, Wise, Monzo, N26, Nubank, Brex, Stripe, Plaid, Airwallex, Nium, Razorpay, Adyen, Checkout.com, PayPal, Column, or Modern Treasury (nice-to-have) • Experience designing financial ledgers, transaction state machines, or reconciliation systems (nice-to-have) • Familiarity with KYC/KYB, compliance workflows, and regulated banking integrations (nice-to-have) • Experience with card issuing or payment-processing infrastructure (nice-to-have) • Experience building multi-currency or FX-heavy financial products (nice-to-have) • Experience integrating multiple banking or financial infrastructure providers into a single platform (nice-to-have) • Previous experience joining an engineering organization early and helping take a product from 0→1 (nice-to-have)

🏖️ Benefits

• Milestone-based compensation • Fully remote and flexible work environment • High-impact founding role with 0→1 ownership • Direct influence over architecture and technical direction • Opportunity to build on top of an already profitable platform • Modern tech stack and provider-agnostic architecture • Collaborative environment working directly with experienced founders