\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

At Scribd (pronounced “scribbed”), we believe reading is more important than ever. Join our cast of characters as we work to change the way the world reads by building the world’s largest and most fascinating digital library: giving subscribers access to a growing collection of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, documents, Scribd Originals, and more. In addition to works from major publishers and top authors, our community includes over 1.5M subscribers in nearly every country worldwide.\n\nOur team\nThe Publisher Content Management team is responsible for building and evolving Scribd’s content and metadata ingestion services, publisher payout pipelines and the tools that enable our Content Operations team to manage the availability of our ever growing corpus of premium content. The team’s technical work is currently divided between our online Rails application and our offline Databricks environment (Scala, Spark, Airflow). Many of the systems we're responsible for span both environments, so engineers regularly work within both. Though the tech stacks differ between environments, the engineering work covers the same domains. Our team has a lot of interesting and challenging problems to tackle over the next few years as we continue to improve our systems and tools, while also investing in evolving and scaling them.\n\nThe team is located in San Francisco, but we foster a remote first culture. We use tools that emphasize asynchronous communication (Slack, Github, Jira, Google Docs) but will also pair program or jump into a meeting room when those are the best approaches. Regardless of the medium, excellent communication skills are a must. We operate with autonomy (developers closest to the code will make the most well-informed decisions) while holding ourselves and each other accountable for using good judgement when faced with each day's unique challenges.\n\nWe value team first Individuals. We work collaboratively, not as engineers working on individual projects in silos. We continually strive for inclusivity and strongly value diversity. We recognize that everyone has a unique set of work and life experiences, and believe that a broader set of perspectives will produce better results for all. Each day provides both opportunities to perform and opportunities to learn. We support others' growth and celebrate our collective achievements.\n\n\nThe role\nAs the Lead Software Engineer of the Publisher Content Management team, your job will be to provide hands-on technical leadership across all of the team's in-progress work as well as the team's technical roadmap. \nThe responsibilities include:\n• Leading the design, implementation, and delivery of your primary project.\n• Managing all aspects of technical project delivery, including system and architectural design, project planning, implementation, deployment, and operations.\n• Ensuring consistency of design, adherence to Scribd engineering principles and practices, and operational excellence across all team work.\n• Working closely with the team's Engineering Manager to prioritize technical projects and improvements relative to requested feature work.\n• Help shape the long term roadmap for evolving team systems to support orders of magnitude growth of Scribd's subscribers, and publisher/premium content.\n• Being a presence that makes every engineer on the team better via mentoring, coaching, and leading by example.\n\nAs the responsibilities demonstrate, the Lead Software Engineer role is more than just an advanced IC role. It is a hands-on leadership role, where you will balance the responsibilities of project work with technical team leadership. Your years of experience allow you to give guidance on projects you aren't deeply familiar with and quickly diagnose root causes of bugs. You and the Engineering Manager will be a team, with your expertise and ability to handle daily technical blockers enabling the Engineering Manager to focus on interviewing and hiring, people management, and project and roadmap planning.\nIf these responsibilities strongly match your interests in your next role, then you should apply!\n\n\nOffice or remote? \nAt this time the role will start as full-time remote, as all of our employees are working from home. When everyone is able to return to the office this role is available at our San Francisco office. This position can also be fully remote for candidates with experience leading development remotely.\n\nRequirements\n• 10+ years of experience as a professional software engineer with a focus on backend systems\n• 3+ years experience working with data pipelines\n• Experience managing multiple projects or a strong desire to take on these new responsibilities\n• Deep knowledge of common data architectures and industry technologies\n• Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent professional experience\n\n\nBenefits, Perks, and Wellbeing at Scribd\n\n• Healthcare Benefits: Scribd pays 100% of employee’s Medical, Vision, and Dental premiums and 70% of dependents\n• Leaves: Paid parental leave, 100% company paid short-term/long-term disability plans and milestone Sabbaticals\n• 401k plan through Fidelity, plus company matching with no vesting period\n• Stock Options - every employee is an owner in Scribd! \n• Generous Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Flexible Sick Time, Volunteer Day + office closure between Christmas Eve and New Years Day\n• Referral bonuses\n• Professional development: generous annual budget for our employees to attend conferences, classes, and other events\n• Company-wide Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion programs which include learning & development opportunities, employee resource groups, and hiring best practices.\n• Learning & Development and Coaching programs\n• Monthly Wellness, Connectivity & Comfort Benefit\n• Concern mental health digital platform\n• Work-life balance flexibility\n• Company events + Scribdchats\n• Free subscription to Scribd + gift memberships for friends & family\n\nWant to learn more? Check out our office and meet some of the team at www.linkedin.com/company/scribd/life\n\nScribd is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\n\nWe encourage people of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that a diversity of perspectives and experiences create a foundation for the best ideas. Come join us in building something meaningful. \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Executive, Developer, Digital Nomad and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $65,000 — $120,000/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 - US/Canada