Staff Software Engineer

🔥 14 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $250k - $400k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Plasma

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

₿ Crypto

Consulting • Logistics • Crypto

Plasma is a purpose-built blockchain designed specifically for stablecoin payments. It offers near-instant, low-cost global settlement and is capable of handling thousands of transactions per second while ensuring compatibility with Ethereum's smart contracts and applications. By leveraging the security and decentralization of Bitcoin as a sidechain, Plasma provides a reliable and efficient platform for remittances, merchant payments, and other financial services involving stablecoins.

📋 Description

• Join one of Plasma's engineering teams and own its hardest technical problems end to end • Set technical direction for core systems, including architecture, data models, and engineering standards • Design reliable systems involving real-money movement, storage, or network dependencies • Own TypeScript services and data models, working through client or API layers when needed • Define handling of partial failures, retries, timeouts, reversals, and reconciliation gaps • Contribute to, architect, and improve frontend systems and integrations • Raise technical standards for code, testing, monitoring, incident response, and ambiguous problem-solving • Mentor engineers and drive technical clarity • Partner with product and other teams where systems connect

🎯 Requirements

• Staff-level, hands-on engineer with a track record of owning production systems end to end • Deep expertise building backend services in TypeScript and Node.js • Full-stack range sufficient to work through the client layer when needed • Strong understanding of reliability, correctness, state machines, data integrity, observability, and operational risk • Ability to take systems from zero to one and scale them • Strong judgment on technical tradeoffs • Clear communication and clean code • Ability to lead technical decisions without managing people • Very high agency and proactive problem-solving • Data-driven decision-making • Nice to have: fintech, banking, or crypto-native background • Nice to have: familiarity with stablecoins, custody, settlement, and blockchain transaction lifecycles • Nice to have: founder or early employee experience at a fast-paced, high-agency startup

🏖️ Benefits

• Token compensation • Visa sponsorship and relocation support if you're joining from abroad • Premium health insurance for you and your family, fully covered by Plasma • Monthly wellness budget • Gym access at the London HQ • Daily food at the London HQ • All the tools and tech you need to operate at your best • Real ownership and responsibility from day one