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Basic Capital

Software Engineer - Core Financial Platform

New York Office$180k–$275kfulltimemidAdded 1 month ago

About this role

Basic Capital, a fintech startup transforming the retirement industry, seeks a Software Engineer to build and maintain core trading, financing, and fund management systems. You'll design complex financial infrastructure handling money movement and trading operations alongside an elite engineering team backed by top investors.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain trading, financing, and fund management systems
  • Design and architect systems that orchestrate complex fund flows and reconciliation
  • Develop backend services using modern frameworks and event-driven architecture
  • Participate in architecture discussions, planning, and code reviews
  • Work on API design and financial platform infrastructure
  • Contribute across the full technology stack as needed

What they're looking for

  • Backend framework development (Kotlin, Rust, Java, Go, C/C++, Python, Ruby, or TypeScript)
  • System architecture and design
  • API design and event-driven systems
  • SQL databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
  • Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
  • Trading or lending system experience (preferred)
  • Workflow orchestration tools like Temporal (preferred)
  • Problem-solving and complexity management

Benefits

  • Work on high-impact financial products addressing wealth inequality
  • Collaborate with experienced team from Goldman Sachs, Uber, Block, Stripe, and Robinhood
  • In-office work environment in SoHo, NYC
  • Backing from top-tier investors including Lux Capital and Forerunner Ventures
  • Opportunity to shape early-stage fintech architecture
  • Fast-paced, autonomous work environment with high agency
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Basic Capital

Basic Capital is a fintech startup building AI-powered retirement solutions across mobile, web, and API platforms. The company is hiring full-stack engineers, frontend developers, infrastructure specialists, and go-to-market engineers to develop its product, scale its cloud infrastructure, and drive revenue growth.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through your experience designing and building event-driven systems. How have you handled eventual consistency and ordering guarantees in high-throughput scenarios?
  • Describe a complex financial or payments system you've built. How did you approach reconciliation and fund movement orchestration?
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