Backend Software Engineer, Ponto

$150-220k

Kafka

Cassandra

Spark

Senior and Expert level

New York

5 days a week in office

Connecting global financial products to local economies

Job no longer available

Connecting global financial products to local economies

21-100 employees

FintechB2BBankingPaymentsFinancial ServicesSaaSMobileAPI

Job no longer available

$150-220k

Kafka

Cassandra

Spark

Senior and Expert level

New York

5 days a week in office

21-100 employees

FintechB2BBankingPaymentsFinancial ServicesSaaSMobileAPI

Company mission

Ponto, meaning bridge in Esperanto, connects global financial products to local economies. We provide the foundational components for new financial technologies so entrepreneurs and enterprises can create great experiences for their customers.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Hands-on experience with distributed systems such as Spark, Kafka, or Cassandra, but no experience with a specific technology is required
Strong coding skills in any object-oriented language. We believe languages can be learned and are far more interested in your general engineering abilities
An inclusive, collaborative, and respectful attitude, along with great critical thinking and problem solving abilities
8+ years of relevant experience

What the job involves

Design and build highly available, resilient, and performant production systems that power financial services for a large number of end-users. Security will be at the forefront of how you design and operate these systems
Design and implement data collection and manipulation pipelines
Design well-abstracted and documented APIs for our customers and partners
Rigorously develop and implement automated testing to cover the full gamut of functionality in our systems, including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests
Setup and manage CI/CD pipelines and other developer tooling to increase your team's engineering velocity
Learn your way around public cloud providers and their numerous service offerings
Work with a diverse, talented, and kind group of people with many different roles in performing all of the above

Our take

While linkages across different financial systems in the centralized world are still being built, the decentralized world suffers from difficult, slow, and inadequate connections into these centralized ecosystems of mobile money, bank money, bank cards, and cash. In order to support neobanks, wallets, and mobile financial experiences being built around the world, proper global banking and payments products need to be built on top of decentralized finance.

Ponto wants to do exactly this. Founded in 2021, Ponto is building an infrastructure layer to provide seamless connectivity between decentralized finance and centralized finance ecosystems. Through their API, developers can embed the ability to convert any asset into another and move value anywhere in the world.

Relatively new on the scene, Ponto is first targeting the US and European markets, but its scalability means it could go much further than this. Following big early funding, it is currently focused on growth, looking particularly at building partnerships with big financial institutions.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (1 round)

Mar 2022

$20m

SEED

Total funding: $20m

Company benefits

Best-in-class benefits package
Meaningful and significant equity in a fast-growing startup
Flexible vacation policy, with an annual minimum
Parental Leave
Generous wellness package
In office, we pay for meals for our employees so you can focus on work

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Will Haering

(CEO)

Previously an Advisor at StratoDem Analytics. Also Founder of Rethink.

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