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title: 'Sr Backend Engineer at The Better Money Company'
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# Sr Backend Engineer at The Better Money Company

- **Company:** The Better Money Company
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bettermoney/8898c5b2-7561-4f23-a274-342f4e389a17

## Job description

## TL;DR

The next wave of stablecoin adoption is payments. We are building a stablecoin clearinghouse to make stablecoins move like money, not a trading asset. We need a backend engineer who can own the systems that move real value: mint and burn flows, reserve accounting, reconciliation, settlement, integrations, and the APIs built on top of all of it.

## About Us

We believe stablecoins are better money and will be the backbone of better payments. We see key structural problems hindering stablecoin adoption, and we're going to fix them, starting with building a clearinghouse. We're a small, scrappy team (~10 people) based in NYC, we've raised $10M from a16z crypto and other excellent partners, and we're going to bring better money to the world.

## What You’ll Do

- Design, build, and operate core backend services behind mint/burn flows, reserve accounting, reconciliation, and settlement pipelines.
- Integrate with banks, custody providers, stablecoin issuers, blockchains, and partner APIs, and make those dependencies safe enough for money movement.
- Build durable reconciliation and audit trails so the team always knows where money is, what happened, and whether state matches reality.
- Design secure API surfaces and own monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response for services that move real value.
- Contribute to the payments API and internal/admin surfaces where backend ownership meets customer or operations workflows.
- Identify and pursue improvements that make the core product more robust, without waiting for a fully specified ticket.

## What We’re Looking For

- 5-12 years of production backend engineering experience, with services you have designed, shipped, and operated in production. Our stack is TypeScript on Node.js, PostgreSQL, and GCP.
- Experience with high-value transactional systems: payments, banking integrations, fintech infrastructure, trading or exchange infrastructure, ledgering, or stablecoin/crypto infrastructure.
- A working command of distributed systems fundamentals: consistency, eventing, idempotency, retries, durable reconciliation, ordering, partial failure, and observability.
- Judgment for integrating with unreliable external systems: banks, payment rails, custody providers, issuers, or similar partner APIs.
- Experience designing secure APIs, handling secrets and access control, instrumenting services, and writing runbooks for infrastructure that moves real value.
- Comfort translating ambiguous business and compliance requirements into technical systems, and explaining the tradeoffs to stakeholders across the company.
- Willingness and ability to work in person in New York City five days a week. Relocation support is available.

Nice to have:

- Direct stablecoin or crypto infrastructure experience: on-chain/off-chain reconciliation, wallet or custody flows, mint/burn, chain finality, or reserve flows.
- Background at a payments or fintech company such as Stripe, Plaid, Circle, Paxos, Coinbase, Modern Treasury, or Bridge.
- Compliance-adjacent engineering experience: KYC/KYB, AML, sanctions, audit evidence, or reserve attestations.
- Ability to build or contribute to admin dashboards, API docs, or partner-facing workflows when needed.
- Experience with Temporal or TigerBeetle.
- Experience with Rust or Python.
- Enthusiasm for building and running core infrastructure with AI coding agents, and helping shape our AI-first engineering culture.

## Our Values

- Be offended by the status quo. A payment taking 3 days and costing 3% is offensive. Every day that people interact with legacy financial infrastructure costs humanity time and money. Bring the future forward with righteous indignation.
- Be all over it. Operate with extreme urgency and accountability. Know the numbers, meet the right people, answer every email, go the extra mile. Ask yourself: can it be done today?
- We sell trust. Trust is easy to lose. Security and integrity are our foundation. Use every interaction and every product as an opportunity to build trust. This is non-negotiable.
- Do the dishes. We are all owners. Put ego aside and get things done.
- Be the glue. Pick each other up and make each other better. Be direct, be helpful, and assume positive intent. Win as a team.
- We enjoy the crucible. We are on a mission to change money. It takes a lot of optimism to attack such an ambitious goal. Our opportunity is a privilege and we don't forget that, especially when the journey is hard.

If these values speak to you, come talk to us!

## Benefits

We're playing the long game. We think you should too. This means investing in our employees. We offer comprehensive (and growing) benefits, including:

- Competitive salary and equity
- Comprehensive insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- Unlimited vacation: take time when you need it
- Periodic off-sites
- Daily lunch provided

## Equal Opportunity Employment

The Better Money Company is an equal opportunity employer. We are looking for the best!

## About The Better Money Company

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The Better Money Company is building a stablecoin clearinghouse that enables 1:1 fungibility between stablecoins for payments and settlement, allowing fintechs and banks to move stablecoins at exactly $1 without market-based transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed VC)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Sam Broner, Adam Zuckerman

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Technology (Stablecoin Infrastructure / Payments)
- **Target customers**: Fintechs, neobanks, payment companies, banks, and stablecoin issuers (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose**: To build the next era of money by solving the structural issues preventing widespread stablecoin adoption, starting with a clearinghouse that makes stablecoins swappable at par.

## Products & Services
- **Stablecoin Clearinghouse**: A platform that connects stablecoin issuers to fintechs, banks, and other businesses. It enables 1:1 fungibility between stablecoins, allowing companies to send, receive, and settle payments in any supported stablecoin at exactly $1, without market-based trading. The clearinghouse supports GENIUS-compliant stablecoins (e.g., USDC, USDG, PYUSD, SBC, CASH, mUSD, frxUSD, RLUSD) and is blockchain-agnostic, initially supporting Ethereum and Solana. Key features include guaranteed settlement times, redemption-based swaps, fixed fees, and compliant source of funds.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $10M (Seed round, announced March 31, 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: BoxGroup, Charlie Songhurst, Packy McCormick, Michael Tannenbaum, The Fintech Fund, and 10+ other investors.
- **Growth Signals**: The company is very early-stage (founded in 2025, seed round closed in early 2026). It is building a novel infrastructure layer for the stablecoin ecosystem, targeting a clear market need for fungibility between stablecoins for payment use cases. The team is small (approximately 5 employees) and actively hiring for key engineering and compliance roles.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for payments**: Unlike existing infrastructure built for trading, the clearinghouse is designed from first principles for payments and settlement, with no market-based transactions, meaning stablecoins move at exactly $1.
- **1:1 Fungibility**: Solves the core coordination problem of moving value between different stablecoins and blockchains without needing to trade or seed liquidity.
- **Compliance-first**: Funds are sourced from GENIUS-compliant issuers and KYBd clients, addressing a key regulatory concern for partners.
- **Fixed, predictable pricing**: Fees do not change based on market conditions, enabling partners to build with predictable costs.

## Strategic Focus
- **Build the clearinghouse network**: The immediate priority is onboarding stablecoin issuers and payment companies to the clearinghouse to create network effects.
- **Expand chain and stablecoin support**: Currently supporting Ethereum and Solana, with plans to expand to more blockchains and any GENIUS-compliant stablecoin.
- **Develop future products**: The company plans to build additional products and tools to help partners "unleash the potential of reliable stablecoins."

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven**: The company is tackling a fundamental problem in the financial system, aiming to make money "faster, more open, more flexible, and more resilient."
- **Early-stage impact**: With a small team (~5 employees), new hires will have significant ownership and influence over the product and company direction.
- **Hybrid work environment**: The company operates a hybrid workspace in New York City, with employees engaging in a combination of remote and on-site work. Some roles are listed as in-office.
- **Founding team**: Led by Sam Broner, who is deeply passionate about fixing the "status quo" of money, and co-founder Adam Zuckerman.
- **Well-funded for seed stage**: The $10M seed round from top-tier investors provides a strong runway to execute on the vision.

## Sources
1. [bettermoney.com](https://bettermoney.com/)
2. [bettermoney.com/about](https://bettermoney.com/about)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/bettermoney](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bettermoney/)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/the-better-money-company)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/the-better-money-company)

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