\nAbout the Company\n\n\nNamed a Forbes Fintech 50, Stronghold’s mission is to improve financial access by powering innovative payment and financial services solutions through our open APIs.  We’ve been going deep to lay the underlying rails for modern payments and reach all customers with secure, transparent ways to move money.\n\n\nWe are seeking team players who can evolve with the company as we scale and add new products. We are a team of technologists and industry experts who take a data-driven and innovative approach to solving problems.  We power possibilities for our customers by bringing the best talent together in an open and collaborative work environment that rewards curiosity and grit.\n\n\nStronghold is proud of its SF Bay Area and New Zealand roots and strives to build a diverse team to serve our ecosystem better while staying true to our core values.  Our core values are to Be Self Aware, Have Good Judgment, Be Curious, Seek Innovation, Excellent Communication, High Impact, Be Bold, Be Selfless, Be Accountable, Be Honest, and Show Grit.\n\n\nAbout the Role\n\n\nAs a member of our engineering team, you will contribute to architecting, developing, and maintaining our payments API platform and blockchain projects. A significant portion of our codebase is written in C# with .NET Core, supported by CI/CD pipelines automated through GitLab. We prioritize efficient and comfortable tooling, providing you with a MacBook, Slack/Zoom for communication, JetBrains IDEs, GitHub Copilot, and more to streamline your work. You’ll work alongside product management and customer-facing teams to help address customer challenges and implement scalable, innovative solutions.\n\n\nIn this role, you will help drive growth and innovation in our decentralized finance and payments products by developing and optimizing software across a range of technologies. You’ll be responsible for backend development, system scalability, and performance optimization. This position offers the chance to gain hands-on experience with diverse projects—from system design and new feature launches to tech debt reduction, user interface design, and server-side performance enhancements.\n\n\nYou’ll be part of a collaborative, experienced team with a mix of startup and established company backgrounds, providing support and mentorship as you grow your skills and impact within the organization.\n\n\nWhat You'll Do\n\n\n- Maintain Stronghold's Platform APIs, working on solving payment problems for our enterprise customers and underserved businesses utilizing .Net, Go, Rust, Node.js and frontend JS frameworks.\n- Be involved with all aspects of the development process for Platform projects - from vision to final implementation.\n- Support new Platform functionality with the corresponding APIs for external developers.\n- Receive, prioritize, and help solve technical problems from Stronghold's Platform API customer base.\n- Collaborate with the Stronghold engineering team on code reviews and design, supporting engineering excellence across the team.\n- Support automated testing, infrastructure development, and the establishment of scalable standards.\n- Work across customer segments, problem types and time horizons on a wide-variety of initiatives.  \n\n\nWhat We're Looking For\n\n\n- You have 6+ years of experience developing software on a team.\n- You’re proficient in languages such as .NET and/or Go, with SQL expertise. Knowledge of Node.js or Rust is a nice-to-have.\n- Experience in building frontend user interfaces and single-page web applications with TypeScript/JavaScript using React.js and Next.js. Knowledge of other frameworks, such as Angular, Vue, or Svelte, is also considered.\n- Familiarity with building and maintaining APIs open to external developers.\n- You are knowledgeable of existing frameworks and open source tools.\n- You have a BSc or MSc in Computer Science or an equivalent experience.\n- Experience with Postgres, Kubernetes, Docker, Cloudflare, Terraform, Redis, Git, GitLab/GitHub, DataDog, Sentry and Google Cloud platform (Azure or AWS is also considered).\n- You're enthusiastic about working on a small, growing team where you'll be given a lot of autonomy.\n- You're a great communicator that can advocate and lead technical discussions, especially during the design and code review process.\n- You learn quickly and strive for simplicity.\n- You're open, empathetic, and care about putting the best ideas forward in a collaborative and helpful manner.\n- Good to have experience working in financial institutions, especially in payments including VIsa/MC, US ACH & wires, CA Interac, and cross-border wires.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Design, Finance, Cloud, API, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $50,000 — $97,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nRemote - New Zealand

\nPlanning Analytics Manager - 12 month contract assignment \n\nSan Mateo, CA or US Remote  \n\nAs a Senior IBM Planning Analytics Developer, you will play a pivotal role in collaborating with FP&A and technical teams to enhance and streamline systems within IBM Planning Analytics. Your primary responsibilities will include:\n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Working closely with FP&A and technical teams to identify and implement systems improvements within IBM Planning Analytics.\n\n* Providing comprehensive support to users of the finance planning tool (IBM Planning Analytics) throughout the forecast cycle, ensuring coverage during PST time zone working hours. This includes administering the application, setting up new users, supporting reports created via Planning Analytics for Excel, resolving ad-hoc queries, maintaining documentation, and delivering end-user training.\n\n* Collaborating with the development team to ensure planning seed data is updated timely within the tool, including actual transactions, headcount information, and depreciation forecasts. Additionally, managing dimensions and security updates throughout the planning and reporting cycle.\n\n* Project managing and delivering system upgrades and improvements based on change requests. This involves providing testing of code updates and roadmap changes as necessary.\n\n* Identifying and implementing best practices to enhance operational efficiency.\n\n* Understanding data flows and enhancing their dependability and repeatability, strengthening links to other enterprise tools.\n\n\n\n\nQualifications:\n\n\n* 7+ years of IBM Planning Analytics development experience (up to V10.2 or higher) with expertise in:\n\n* Server installation and system configuration.\n\n* Cube and application design.\n\n* Planning Analytics TI + Chores.\n\n* Feeders.\n\n* Planning Analytics security, including element security.\n\n* Planning Analytics architect.\n\n* Experience using Planning Analytics REST API (preferably via Cubewise’s Canvas product).\n\n* Strong understanding of finance principles, with previous experience in budgeting and forecasting processes and interacting with finance analysts\n\n* Experience in project management of key financial initiatives within Planning Analytics.\n\n\n\n\nDesired qualifications:\n\n\n* Planning Analytics Performance Modeler.\n\n* Exposure to master data management solutions.\n\n* Experience with Cognos BI integration.\n\n\n\n\n#LI-SV1 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing, Finance, API and Senior jobs that are similar:\n\n $55,000 — $112,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nSan Mateo, California, United States

\nWith highly technical products, Stitch is looking to hire a Head of Client Solutions to build out a function responsible for ensuring Stitch’s products solve customers’ various business needs, as well as guiding the implementation and onboarding process for integrations. \n\nThis is a great role for those that want to architect and build developer first solutions. You will also have the opportunity to be exposed to/work with developers across most of the enterprises in South Africa and abroad. \n\nThe ideal candidate will have experience in customer-facing engineering or product teams, and will be comfortable partnering closely with Account Executives or other salespeople to break down highly technical products to prospective customers’ teams in a transparent and compelling way. \n\nIn addition, the Head of Client Solutions will play a role in assisting with onboarding customers across all acquisition channels, refining the tools and platform (such as our documentation, SDKs, and quickstart guides) for enterprise customers.. \n\nResponsibilities \n\n\n* Work closely with the sales, customer success, onboarding and product/engineering teams to understand the customer use-case, technical environment and ensure a smooth implementation of the Stitch API \n\n* Work closely with operational teams (Fraud, Support, Finance etc) to ensure a smooth transition from implementation and go-live to BAU\n\n* Own the pre and post-sale technical implementation processes by acting as a bridge between sales, onboarding, engineering and customers. \n\n* Support and Educate customers on the Stitch API, functionality, product and the technology involved in order to ensure\n\n\n* A smooth implementation taking operational concerns and previous pain points into account\n\n* An easy architectural or technology review and approval process found in most enterprises\n\n* A great customer and developer experience\n\n* Industry best practices are adhered to \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n* Define and monitor quarterly goals of the solutions team \n\n* Prioritise customers based on business context and proactively manage relationships to delight customers at various touch points along the sales, implementation and growth process \n\n* Use customer and industry insights to help inform product and technology decisions.\n\n* Identify areas where we could assist customers further (e.g. other use cases) and liaise with sales if the product needs to be expanded. \n\n* Manage and Mentor team members to grow within the Solutions function\n\n* Alongside all elements of the above\n\n\n* Develop tools and solutions to improve developer experience (DevX) eg. Docs, IDE’s, SDK’s, Open Source Demos, plugins and more\n\n* Develop bespoke integrations for key customers using Stitch\n\n* Guide customers through the technical integration process, starting from testing all the way through to go-live\n\n* Answer client technical product questions e.g.. constraints, requirements, integration stack, recommendations \n\n* Advise technical solutions for prospective and new customers planning to integrate Stitch, including demo’ing and showcasing the product integration process\n\n* Define, produce, and evolve platform and tooling to support smooth integration processes across all acquisition channels and various types of customers lead error management and technical investigations during integration, and answer Stitch related product integration queries (API documents, testing, go-live preparation)\n\n* Monitor & Create customer metrics alongside to proactively detect any integration, degradation or conversion issues\n\n* Perform Quality Assurance reviews (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) during go-live phases\n\n* Host client integration workshops, code review workshops and check-ins to advise customers on best practices during technical integration process\n\n* Work with our product & engineering teams to translate prospect feedback into meaningful product insights\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements \n\n\n* 8+ years in a customer-facing role. \n\n* Leadership and organisational management experience. \n\n* A track record of success in technology innovation, architecture and management\n\n* Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent working experience\n\n* Empathy for customer objectives and pain points (i.e. the ability to walk in a customer's shoes and understand their biggest problems). \n\n* Previous customer-facing experience (advantageous: in a technical sales role)\n\n* Ability to quickly understand new technologies and complex concepts quickly (advantageous: a track record of success in financial technology or technology startup)\n\n* Hands on technical experience building software \n\n\n\n\nAdvantageous: \n\n\n* Strong network in the local Fintech or Banking space. \n\n* Interest in Open Banking. \n\n* Strong knowledge of customers in various key markets - including South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Ghana. \n\n* Experience in working in B2B SaaS, API or Payments companies. \n\n* Experience operating within a regulated environment, as well as relationships with key stakeholders in it. \n\n* Bonus: Experience building open source tools or implementing DevX\n\n\n\n\nA snapshot of our current stack \n\n\n* Typescript \n\n* Kubernetes \n\n* Node.js \n\n* GraphQL \n\n* React \n\n* Next.js \n\n* IdentityServer4 (dotnet core) \n\n* PostgreSQL \n\n* Github & Github Actions \n\n* Snowflake \n\n* DataDog \n\n* Azure\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Testing, Finance, API and Sales jobs that are similar:\n\n $45,000 — $77,500/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n