Augustus
Banking
SeniorEngineer
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“Senior Engineer at Augustus. Skills: core banking systems, system design, technical tradeoffs, programmable bank, money movement, central bank infrastructure, blockchain infrastructure. work on core banking systems. own projects end to end”
Industry & Context.
turn complex financial problems into clean code; figure it out; build systems that make the problem smaller; automate, not to handle it manually; hardest problems
Based in Berlin or ready to relocate (full relocation support provided), Relocation support, visa support, 4x on-/offsites per year
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of hands‑on software engineering experience (backend-focused), 3+ years in early‑stage or small startup environments
What You'll Do.
work on core banking systems
own projects end to end
turn complex financial problems into clean code
make decisions that actually matter
build the banking core across bare metal central bank infrastructure and blockchain infrastructure
precision engineering to translate a complex system into simple and clean code which runs highly reliable way at scale
Understand the codebase and increase your ownership rapidly
ship meaningful code in your first weeks
Pick up a major project as an IC and start driving it
ship your first big project end to end
influence technical direction
scope and drive projects autonomously
have opinions on how the core banking systems should evolve and you're acting on them
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
work with engineering, product, and clients; pairing with the team; Junior engineers come to you
Communication Scope
clear thinking
Process & Methodology
drive projects autonomously, scope and drive projects
Full Job Description
Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented. The dollar is the best product in the history of the world, with practically infinite global demand, but distribution is broken. Global clearing runs on legacy banks that are closed 115 days a year, built for humans and take two days to settle. Augustus is the update to the internet era. We received conditional approval from the OCC to charter America’s first stablecoin-native clearing bank that is always open, made for machines, at the speed of compute. We are a group of operators, unicorn early employees, ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We're backed with $40M from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Creandum and founders of Ramp, Deel and Circle. We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe. THE ROLE You're a super IC in a small, elite engineering team. You work on core banking systems and own projects end to end. You take on big projects, drive them yourself, and deliver. You work with engineering, product, and clients. You turn complex financial problems into clean code. You're trusted with the big calls from day 1; system design, technical tradeoffs, what we build and what we don't. The team is small on purpose, that means you have lot of ownership, you move fast, and you make decisions that actually matter. You're part of the product engineering team building the Programmable Bank - a bank for the new age of money movement, built around Digital Assets and AI. Your team builds the banking core across bare metal central bank infrastructure and blockchain infrastructure. We are building a "swiss clock", your job is precision engineering to translate a complex system into simple and clean code which runs highly reliable way at s
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