Founding EngineerInfinite · San Francisco

Founding Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2025-06-17 San Francisco Fulltime Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market US$14,166–US$25,000/mo

About the Company

COMPANY OVERVIEW Infinite is a stablecoin payment processor. We offer businesses turnkey APIs and SDKs to instantly move money anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost of traditional solutions. The founding team previously built and scaled products at financial services category leaders Coinbase https://coinbase.com and Sardine https://sardine.ai.

About the Role

As our Founding Engineer, you will define, build, and maintain the technical foundation of our platform. You will join us in-person in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment where you will take ownership of everything, from architecture and implementation to production reliability for mission-critical services. You will partner directly with founders and early customers to translate real-world requirements into robust, high-quality products.

Responsibilities

  • ● Full Stack & End-to-End - Design, implement, and operate complete services and user-facing features, from requirements gathering through production support
  • ● System Design & Architecture - Develop highly available, event-driven systems for ledgering, compliance, and risk that scale with transaction volume while maintaining zero downtime
  • ● Implementation Engineering - Embed with customers, collect feedback, and iterate rapidly to ensure our roadmap aligns with user needs
  • ● Technical Decision-Making - Balance speed and long-term scalability, selecting appropriate technologies (Next.js/TypeScript, C, Go, Python, modern cloud infrastructure) for each problem domain
  • ● REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
  • ● -5+ years of professional software engineering, including the delivery of 0-to-1 products and scaling them in production
  • ● Proficiency in at least two of: Next.js/TypeScript, C, Go, Python
  • ● Hands-on expertise with asynchronous and event-driven architectures
  • ● Full-stack ownership spanning modern front-end frameworks, back-end services, and cloud infrastructure
  • ● Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to influence internal and external cross-functional stakeholders
  • ● Proven expertise with AI-assisted development tools-especially Cursor or windsurf, to accelerate code generation, refactoring, and automated test creation

Requirements

  • ● Practical experience deploying lightweight machine-learning models for real-time anomaly detection, automated compliance reporting, or incident triage in production systems
  • ● Prior leadership or mentorship in a high-growth engineering team
  • ● IDEAL CANDIDATE
  • ● The ideal candidate is a passionate and driven engineer with a hacker's mindset. You are comfortable both leading a team and being hands-on with code. You thrive in fast-paced environments and are eager to tackle complex challenges that drive our company's success.