Staff Software Engineer (Elixir)

River · Fintech

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Salary Range (USD)

$200k - $250k

Location

NYC, USA

Visa Support

Not mentioned

Funding Stage

pre-seed

Job Responsibilities

  • • Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API
  • • Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure
  • • Scaling ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk
  • • Ground-up React and React Native rewrite of consumer app
  • • Porting Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir

Required Skills

ElixirGraphQLExperience building payment systemsStrong software engineering fundamentals

Engineering Culture & Tech Stack

Elixir
ownership
product-minded
fast-paced

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River | Staff Engineers (Elixir) | NYC or REMOTE (US, Europe, South America) | Full-Time | $200K-$250K + equity | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river?utm_source=Zp9nJyqvd4 I'm Alex, founder and CEO of River. I also wrote the first line of code and still ship PRs. River is a client-first Bitcoin-only financial institution building the financial app people use every day to save in bitcoin and spend in dollars. We custody over 33,000 BTC, serve individuals and businesses across the U.S., and are profitable. We publish cryptographic proof of reserves monthly and our company financials annually. Here's what our engineering team is working on: - Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API - Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure - Scaling our ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk - A ground-up React and React Native rewrite of our consumer app - Porting our Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir We're hiring: - Staff Software Engineer (Elixir) | $200K-$250K Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river/610f652b-bdb9-4d82-9973-680ba...

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