You're a strong individual contributor who works well across the full team. You don't need someone looking over your shoulder. You take ownership of your work end-to-end, communicate honestly about timelines and constraints, and never let something fall through the cracks because it wasn't technically "your problem."
You're comfortable with the full stack. You have at least 4+ years shipping production-grade infrastructure with Node and NestJS (or something comparable) and React with TypeScript. You're proficient building client facing APIs and asynchronous backend systems with complex state machines (event queuing, job scheduling, webhook delivery, failure recovery, and so on). You move fluidly between frontend and backend depending on what the problem requires. You care about design and have high standards for what you ship. Not just whether it works, but whether it feels right.
You're built for startups. You know what it means to operate in an environment with high ambiguity and real stakes. You move fast, make good decisions under uncertainty, and find energy in the challenge rather than frustration in the chaos. You've worked in a high-growth environment before, or you're deeply ready for one.
You're obsessed with correctness and resilience. Moving money globally means the margin for error is low. You think carefully about edge cases, error handling, and what happens when things go wrong, because they will. You love a good state machine. You appreciate systems that are both robust and easy to reason about.
You're curious about what we're building. You don't need to come from a fintech background, but you should be genuinely interested in stablecoins, global payments, and the financial infrastructure being rebuilt around them. The engineers who thrive here see the mission as part of the appeal, not just the tech stack.