Founding Platform Engineer

About the role

You’ll architect the core systems that handle payment processing, fraud detection, and reconciliation—powering a secure financial experience. You’ll build for a diverse range of consumers, so small details matter a lot. You’ll operate critical cloud infrastructure with high reliability and availability requirements. While you default to choosing boring technology and avoiding shiny objects, you’ll leverage established and emerging AI tools to accelerate your work and the company as a whole.

• Languages: Go with some TypeScript
• Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis
• Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Docker
• Collaboration: Slack, Linear, GitHub, Figma

Our process includes a meeting with the founder, a technical screen, architecture & design interview, and team collaboration sessions. We can move as quickly as you can.

How to apply

Please email hello@poolmoney.com with the following in the body of the email:

• Tell us about yourself and your background. 100 words or less.
• Tell us what excites you about Pool and consumer payments software, along with relevant payments experience if you have any. We want to work with people who are excited to use the product they’re building. 100 words or less.
• Tell us about something you’ve read recently and would recommend to us – we want to learn about you as a person and what interests you. 100 words or less.
• Your LinkedIn profile or a resume as a PDF attachment.