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title: 'Staff Engineer at Routefusion'
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# Staff Engineer at Routefusion

- **Company:** Routefusion
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-04-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/routefusion/5eee669a-ef6b-460a-b689-dc88828a1405

## Job description

## Who we are

## About Routefusion

Routefusion is a global financial infrastructure platform for businesses. From late stage high growth fintechs and platforms to early stage upstart neobanks, —use Routefusion to accept and send global bank-to-bank payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to liberate global financial infrastructure for every business, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.

## About the team

Routefusion builds the internet's economic infrastructure, making money transactions easy and connecting the world's economies. We're a small and efficient team. We meet in office a few times a week to whiteboard, collaborate and eat great lunches. We have a hybrid in person culture where we do expect you to come in a few times a week for in person collaboration, but after those meetings we do not care if you are working from home or the beach (if Austin had one...cough cough secret beach**).

## About the role

As a Staff Engineer, you will be a critical technical leader, driving the evolution of our core systems that make up our global infrastructure and ultimately serve people and financial systems around the globe. You will partner with many functions at Routefusion, and will be a key influencer in defining technical strategy, education, and culture within the engineering organization. You will work on complex systems and ensure security, scalability, and reliability throughout the stack. The right engineer will allow us to scale faster and more reliably as our business accelerates. If that sounds exciting, we’d love to speak with you.

## What you’ll do

●      Technical Leadership: ○      Help define and drive the technical roadmap for critical platform infrastructure components. ○      Provide architectural guidance and expertise on complex system design and implementation. ○      Identify and solve systemic challenges that impact the scalability and reliability of Routefusion's platform. ○      Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve engineering practices and infrastructure efficiency. ●      System Design and Implementation: ○      Design and implement highly scalable, resilient, and performant systems. ○      Develop and maintain core infrastructure services, focusing on security, automation, and observability. ○      Evaluate and adopt technologies and methodologies to enhance Routefusion’s infrastructure capabilities. ●      Mentorship and Collaboration: ○      Mentor and guide senior and junior engineers, fostering their technical growth. ○      Collaborate closely with product managers, DevOps, and other engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions. ○      Drive technical discussions and decisions, ensuring alignment across teams. ●      Operational Excellence: ○      Ensure high availability and reliability of critical infrastructure services. ○      Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts. ○      Drive continuous improvement in monitoring, alerting, and operational processes.

## Who you are

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

## Minimum requirements

●      10+ years of experience working as a software engineer in backend systems. ●      Expertise in designing, delivering, extending, and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. ●      Love to design systems that are elegant abstractions over complex patterns/practices ●      Proven proficiency in one of Node.js, or TypeScript. As well as SQL, and cloud platforms such as GCP, or AWS. ●      Strong understanding of network protocols, operating systems, and database systems. ●      Proven ability to lead technical projects and drive architectural decisions. ●      Experience mentoring and growing engineers of all levels

## Preferred qualifications

●      You have extensive experience working with financial systems. ●      You think of yourself as entrepreneurial and enjoy moving quickly. ●      You hold yourself and others to a high bar. ●      You enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different expertise. ●      In-depth knowledge of the following technologies: Javascript, Node.js, TypeScript, HTTP, Pub/Sub, SQS, PostgreSQL; ●      In-depth understanding of Web API standards such as REST, and GraphQL;

## About Routefusion

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Routefusion provides a single API for global payments, enabling platforms and businesses to send cross-border payments, hold multi-currency accounts, and settle in stablecoins.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Funding Stage: Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, USA
- **Founded**: 2016 (as a company; founding team began building the product in 2018 according to some sources)
- **Founders**: Not publicly named in sourced materials (founded by software engineers)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Technology (Fintech) / Payments Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B; specifically platforms, neobanks, payroll providers, marketplaces, and other software companies that need to embed cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts, or FX hedging into their own products.
- **Mission**: To make global payments seamless, enabling businesses to "go global from day one" by turning the messy world of international payments into a single, developer-friendly network.

## Products & Services
- **Payments API**: Cross-border payments to 185+ countries via SWIFT, local rails (SEPA, PIX, ACH), and stablecoin settlement. Core offering for sending money globally.
- **Accounts API**: Non-resident bank accounts in 9+ countries (12 currencies), enabling customers to hold, receive, and disburse funds locally. Includes virtual accounts for per-client reconciliation.
- **Settle**: A settlement product that allows funding payouts with USDC (stablecoin), enabling 24/7 global settlement.
- **Hedge**: A service to lock in FX rates using forward contracts in 140+ currencies, protecting margins from currency fluctuation.
- **Ledger**: A unified multi-currency reporting and automated reconciliation tool for managing balances across currencies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$40.7 million**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: PeakSpan Capital (lead), Silverton Partners, Initialized Capital, Forum Ventures. No specific bank partners publicly named on the main site, but the company touts a "redundant partner network" and FDIC/PCI/SOC2 compliance.
- **Growth Signals**: The company powers payments for well-known customers including **Jeeves**, **Clara**, and **Plane**. It supports 180+ countries, 140+ currencies, and touts 99.9% uptime. The funding raise ($40.7M) signals significant investor confidence and growth capital.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Developer-First API**: Clean documentation, SDKs in popular languages, and a sandbox environment are the core differentiator. The company was founded by software engineers "for software engineers."
- **Single API for Fragmented World**: Solves the problem of connecting to dozens of separate providers and ancient banking APIs, offering one unified, modern endpoint.
- **Regulatory and Compliance Infrastructure**: SOC 2 Type I certified, PCI DSS compliant, and built with bank-grade security, reducing the compliance burden for customers.
- **Global by Default**: The company's ethos and product are built on the premise that businesses should not wait to be "big enough" to operate internationally.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Platform**: Continue expanding the number of countries, local payment rails, and currencies supported.
- **Stablecoin Settlement**: "Settle" product is a clear strategic bet on crypto/stablecoins for instant, 24/7 settlement, reducing reliance on traditional SWIFT timings.
- **Platform Growth**: Winning more platform and marketplace customers to embed its infrastructure, rather than just serving direct payment needs.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "builder" culture with a "no politics, no noise" environment, focused on impact and execution. The company values "love what you do" over a paycheck.
- **Work Policy**: Remote-first, with a hybrid-friendly office in East Austin, Texas. Employees have flexibility on time spent in-office.
- **Perks**: Stock options, 401K, unlimited PTO, healthcare (vision/dental), a monthly activity stipend, and a family/pet-friendly environment.
- **Engineering Culture**: Heavy emphasis on modern tech stack (Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Google Cloud, NoSQL). The team is lean but impactful, typical of a well-funded Series A company.

## Sources
1. [routefusion.com](https://routefusion.com/)
2. [routefusion.com/company/about](https://routefusion.com/company/about)
3. [routefusion.com/company/careers](https://routefusion.com/company/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/routefusion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/routefusion)
5. [builtin.com/company/routefusion](https://builtin.com/company/routefusion)

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