Senior Platform Engineer

📋 Job Overview

The next wave of stablecoin adoption is payments. We're building a stablecoin clearinghouse to make stablecoins move like money, not a trading asset. Payments don’t run on trading, but stablecoins currently do, this is unacceptable for traditional payments companies. We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who obsesses over correctness/efficiency and likes to get involved across backend/distributed systems. Help us build the systems that help us build faster with confidence by owning and building internal tools, dev infrastructure, and automation.

🏢 About Better Money

We believe stablecoins are better money and will be the backbone of better payments. We see key structural problems hindering stablecoin adoption, and we're going to fix them – starting with building a clearinghouse. We're a small, scrappy team (~10 people) based in NYC, we've raised $10M from a16z crypto and other excellent partners, and we're going to bring better money to the world.

🎯 The Role

Help shape how we responsibly bring AI-assisted development into core financial infrastructure, without giving up correctness guarantees. Own the test harness for our core systems: integration tests, formal verification, and chaos testing across the ledger, netting algorithm, money movement, and payment ordering. Build correctness guarantees that let the rest of the team ship faster. If we can prove it's right, we can move with confidence. Design and build internal tools that amplify our productivity. Own CI/CD pipelines, dev environments, and deployment infrastructure. Make the path from code to production fast, safe, and boring. Instrument our systems with observability like logging, tracing, alerting, so we catch problems before our customers do.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Help shape how we responsibly bring AI-assisted development into core financial infrastructure
• Own the test harness for our core systems: integration tests, formal verification, and chaos testing across the ledger, netting algorithm, money movement, and payment ordering
• Build correctness guarantees that let the rest of the team ship faster
• Design and build internal tools that amplify our productivity
• Own CI/CD pipelines, dev environments, and deployment infrastructure
• Instrument our systems with observability like logging, tracing, alerting

📌 Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, developer tooling, infrastructure, or reliability engineering
• Expert in GCP or AWS
• Comfortable with TypeScript and/or Python
• NodeJS or similar runtime environments
• PostgreSQL or similar RDBMS
• You've built infrastructure for systems where correctness actually matters: payments, trading, ledgers, or platforms with similar requirements
• You reason naturally about state, ordering, idempotency, failure modes, and consistency in distributed systems
• You have strong opinions about what good internal tooling looks like, and you build it proactively
• You thrive in ambiguity, viewing a lack of specificity as an opportunity for ownership

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with formal verification, property-based testing, or chaos engineering is a big plus, especially if you've spent time with tools like Temporal or TigerBeetle

🎁 Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision)
• Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it
• Periodic off-sites

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

• The Better Money Company is an equal opportunity employer. We are looking for the best!