Lead Engineer, FinTech

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Differential

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $385k Seed Round - Differential: Digital Products Company on 2015-05

Consulting • SaaS • B2B

Differential is a digital-product studio and venture builder. It operates as a digital-product agency that builds custom software (Studio) and commercializes digital products (Ventures), working with startups, middle-market companies, and intrapreneurs at larger companies. The company emphasizes a team-based leadership structure, strong culture, and processes for onboarding, benefits, and side projects. Its stated mission includes making technology that connects people (including a platform to connect people with their local church), and its history shows evolution from a venture studio into a services and product-focused company.

📋 Description

• Own the technical design and implementation of complex FinTech and payment-related systems • Make architectural decisions and establish engineering standards and patterns • Build and maintain APIs, integrations, services, and data systems • Design, code, review, debug, test, document, and ship software • Solve problems involving payments, financial data, transactions, reconciliation, and third-party integrations • Partner with Product and Engineering leadership to translate business requirements into technical solutions • Identify technical risks and improve reliability, scalability, security, and performance • Mentor and influence engineers through code reviews and technical guidance • Maintain detailed payment-system architecture documentation • Identify and explicitly handle payment-system edge cases • Maintain payment-system regression detection and uptime detection systems • Translate sketches, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups into web and mobile applications • Deliver approachable, modern, tested, maintainable, and documented code • Work closely with product and engineering teams • Maintain development workflow using team tooling • Communicate via Basecamp, Slack, and video calls • Incorporate feedback and execute with quality and speed in an ambiguous environment • Use modern AI-powered techniques and approaches

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience • Strong experience building and scaling production payments software • Deep understanding of backend architecture, APIs, databases, and distributed systems • Experience in FinTech, payments, banking, financial services, or transaction-heavy systems • Strong understanding of payment flows, transaction processing, webhooks, reconciliation, or financial integrations • Experience integrating third-party APIs and services such as payment processors, banks, or financial platforms • Strong experience with TypeScript/Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and modern cloud infrastructure • Comfortable working across the stack, including React/React Native • Strong architectural instincts and pragmatic technical tradeoffs • Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills • Comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership and autonomy • Passion for the whole product process • Ability to use an iterative process to maintain momentum and continuously deliver valuable working software • Ability to leverage AI tools while observing and enforcing sound engineering principles • Effective communication with clients and teammates • Self-motivated, quick, and relentless learner • Curiosity about technology and its impact • Ability to take ownership and responsibility • Ability to collaborate on meaningful problems • Must be based in the United States • Must be available during standard business hours for internal and external meetings • Legally authorized to work in the United States • Must answer application questions and provide a CV or resume

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible vacation • Remote work • Flexible working hours • Opportunity to work on meaningful projects • Free and flexible culture • Professional autonomy and ownership • Equal opportunity employment