Founding Engineer

Skills
Full-Stack DevelopmentNode.JsReact.JsAlgorithmsCustomer Relationship ManagementFintechProduct Requirements
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of commercial software development experience
  • Strong full-stack engineering across frontend and backend
  • Degree in a numerate discipline
  • Experience shipping real customer-facing products
  • Strong experience with complex business logic in payments subscriptions wallets e-commerce fintech or iGaming
  • Ability to turn messy product requirements into robust scalable solutions
  • Ability to work independently and make sound technical decisions
  • Strong attention to edge cases reliability data integrity and user impact
  • Comfort in an early-stage startup environment
  • Good communication and trade-off explanation skills
  • Availability to commit 25–30 hours per week with some weekend availability

Nice to have

  • Ownership mindset
  • Startup-minded
  • Detail-oriented
  • Independent
  • Strong communicator

Day to day

  • Build and improve core full-stack product features for a social lottery platform
  • Design and ship robust systems for subscriptions payments wallet and enrolment flows
  • Develop admin tooling reliability improvements and edge-case handling across customer and operational journeys

Hiring process

  • Send CV or LinkedIn or GitHub
  • Include a short note on what you have built and why you are interested in Syndi