
Software Engineer at Modern Treasury (San Francisco, CA)
Modern Treasury· San Francisco, CA· $120k–$240k·
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Summary
Build end-to-end features for Modern Treasury's payment infrastructure using Ruby on Rails, Postgres, and Redis. The role involves iterative coding, maintaining core components, and collaborating within a team to ship code frequently while ensuring system reliability and scalability.
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OVERVIEW
This position can be based out of San Francisco, New York, or remote (we accept candidates from the following states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IL, MA, MI, MN, MT, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TN, TX, UT, WA, WI).
We're looking for Full-Stack Software Engineers who want to help businesses of any size move money worldwide. You will contribute to APIs, banking infrastructure and financial workflows that ensure our customers can adopt and scale with Modern Treasury.
Whereas most SaaS companies move data, we move money. Our systems must scale to high volumes, with high accuracy and high reliability. Engineers at Modern Treasury design thoughtful design APIs, implement resilient processes, and choose infrastructure that prioritizes fault tolerance and long-term maintainability over chasing latest trends.
Our application is powered by Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis and ParadeDB. As of today, we are on the latest version of each technology. Github and typical CI/CD automation is used for deployments to AWS. While engineers have specialties, engineers can easily contribute to all layers and components of the application without friction.
ABOUT MODERN TREASURY
Modern Treasury provides trusted infrastructure for money movement. The company helps teams launch and scale payment experiences in days, not months. With best-in-class developer tools and a single API for fiat and stablecoins—plus built-in compliance, ledgering, and reporting— Modern Treasury enables businesses to move money instantly, reliably, and at scale.
$750T+ moves across the bank rails each year. However, despite this incredible volume, the technology powering these rails has not kept pace with digital transformation in other industries. With the significance and scale of this opportunity in mind, Dimitri, Matt, and Sam founded Modern Treasury in 2018 to support the world's largest industries and money movers. Today, the company has grown to serve companies in the economy's most important sectors, from real-estate, healthcare, and insurance, to education and financial services.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Build end-to-end features individually or in small teams
- Iterate and ship code frequently
- Participate in maintenance and ownership of a core component
- Learn the payments space and shape projects before development
- Be mentored and eventually become a mentor
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Interested in full-stack development, including backend jobs, DBs and frontend UX
- A history of collaborating with a team to ship a major feature
PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS
- Experience with Ruby on Rails, React & Postgres
- Experience with financial software for banks, credit card processing or cryptocurrencies.
- Ability to thrive in autonomous, engineer driven environment
Modern Treasury is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual's race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
Modern Treasury participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Why work at Modern Treasury
- Culture: Described as “principled operators solving some of the hardest problems in money movement.” The team values “trust, curiosity, and constructive feedback” and moves fast while thinking deeply.
- Remote/Hybrid/Office: Offices in San Francisco (77 Geary St.) and New York (184 Fifth Ave.). The presence of at least one employee in Spain suggests some remote flexibility, but the majority of roles appear to be US‑based with an expectation of in‑office presence in SF or NYC.
- Notable perks:
- Unlimited PTO
- Comprehensive healthcare (HMO, PPO, dental, vision)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Family planning resources (Carrot)
- Home office stipend & books/learning stipend
- 401(k) through Fidelity
- Charitable donation matching
- Engineering culture: Strong developer tooling focus; the engineering team (43 people) works on ledgering, APIs, security, and stablecoin infrastructure. Recent job openings include multiple Software Engineer (Security) and Infrastructure roles, indicating investment in reliability and trust.
- Rating: 3.5/5 on employer rating (42 reviews) – with highest marks for Work‑Life Balance (4.2) and Culture (4.0), lowest for Career Development (3.3). The recent VP of People departure (Feb 2026) may signal organizational change.