The Cari Network is a permissioned, blockchain-based platform powering always-on, programmable money movement. On-chain transactions occur through Cari—digital tokens representing deposits held at chartered banks in the Network. Each token is equal to USD and retains the protections of the underlying deposits, including FDIC insurance eligibility up to applicable limits. Cari combines bank-grade security with digital-asset speed to move money in real time, unlock working capital, and safeguard value.

Cari Network

The first tokenized deposit network purpose-built to connect chartered banks and decentralized finance.

Remote (U.S.) — Full Time

The Cari Network is building a blockchain-based payment system powering real-time, 24/7 movement of digital money across the traditional finance and digital asset ecosystems. A pre-launch startup, we’re creating an entirely new category of financial infrastructure that brings cash on chain through tokenization while powering the full spectrum of payments for our network—banks, digital asset exchanges, and, most importantly, the customers they serve.

About The Role

You'll set technical direction for the platform infrastructure that our Banking and Blockchain engineering teams both build on—durable workflow orchestration, transaction-ordering guarantees, and the shared architectural patterns that keep two fast-moving product teams from quietly reinventing the same infrastructure twice. This is a cross-team role: your decisions constrain and enable how both teams design their own services.

You'll have deep expertise in at least one area the org draws on—most likely distributed transaction ordering, durable workflow systems, or data-consistency guarantees for financial flows—and you'll be the person other senior and staff engineers escalate to when a cross-service design question doesn't have an obvious owner.

What You'll Do

Set the technical direction for cross-cutting backend platform infrastructure: durable workflow orchestration (Restate), transaction-ordering and concurrency-control patterns, and the shared primitives Banking and Blockchain services build onDesign systems that span multiple services—data flow across the platform, migration strategies for live systems, and versioning strategy for shared infrastructure APIsEstablish reliability standards that apply across services, not just your own: load testing profiles, deployment safety gates, and the failure-mode analysis that should happen before launch, not afterMultiply the team's impact through systems, not just review: build the tooling, templates, and enforced standards (shared CI patterns, reusable service scaffolding, common observability conventions) that reduce process overhead org-wideAlign multiple engineering teams on shared technical direction—this means building consensus, not just publishing a decisionRepresent backend platform engineering in cross-org technical planning, and flag architectural risk before it becomes another team's incident

Qualifications

8–10+ years of backend software engineering experience, including a track record of setting technical direction across multiple services or teams, not just owning your ownDeep expertise in at least one of: durable workflow/orchestration systems, distributed transaction ordering, or data-consistency guarantees in financial or otherwise correctness-critical systemsStrong proficiency in TypeScript; production experience with Effect (effect.ts) or a comparable functional effect system strongly preferredExperience designing systems that other teams build on top of—you understand what makes a shared platform component genuinely reusable versus just reusedTrack record of driving cross-team technical alignment without formal authority over the teams you're aligningStrong instincts around financial-grade reliability: idempotency, at-least-once delivery, crash recovery, and reconciliation, at a scale spanning multiple servicesComfortable identifying and naming architectural risk before it's anyone's incident

Nice to Haves

Prior work in fintech, payments, or another regulated financial infrastructure environment, ideally at meaningful transaction scaleExperience with blockchain or custody-adjacent transaction systemsTrack record of building internal platform tooling or standards adopted org-wide

What We Offer

Competitive compensation: salary, bonus, and equityFull medical, vision, dental benefits401(k) with matching programFlexible vacation policy (PTO) and remote-first work environment

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