StraitsX
FinTech
SoftwareEngineer,EngineeringExcellence
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“Software Engineer, Engineering Excellence at StraitsX. Design internal tools, platforms, and AI-powered solutions. Build internal tools, platforms, and AI-powered solutions”
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2 years of professional software engineering experience, Deliver reliable, maintainable, and scalable software solutions, Proficiency in Ruby, Golang, JavaScript, or TypeScript, Experience with modern backend services, APIs, and distributed systems, Understanding of relational databases, Experience profiling, troubleshooting, and optimizing database queries and application performance, Experience building developer tools, internal platforms, or AI-powered applications, Solid understanding of software design principles, system architecture, testing practices, and CI/CD pipelines, Problem-solving skills
Nice to Have
Familiarity with AI security practices, guardrails, or governance frameworks, Basic understanding of payment systems, fintech infrastructure, or blockchain technologies
What You'll Do.
Design internal tools
and AI-powered solutions
and AI-powered solutions
Maintain internal tools
and AI-powered solutions
Support tooling used by Engineering
Enhance tooling used by Engineering
Identify performance bottlenecks
Identify operational inefficiencies
Implement solutions to improve system reliability
Implement solutions to improve system scalability
Implement solutions to improve system throughput
Contribute to observability initiatives
Contribute to monitoring initiatives
Contribute to operational excellence initiatives
Implement AI security guardrails
Maintain AI security guardrails
Implement AI governance mechanisms
Maintain AI governance mechanisms
Evaluate risks associated with AI-enabled systems
Mitigate risks associated with AI-enabled systems
Contribute to development of engineering standards
Contribute to adoption of engineering standards
Promote secure software development
Promote maintainable software development
Promote reliable software development
Partner with engineering teams
Understand challenges
Deliver impactful solutions
Gather feedback from internal stakeholders
Continuously improve developer experience
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Engineering teams; Product teams; Operations teams; Trading Desk teams; Blockchain teams; Payment Rails teams; Treasury teams
Full Job Description
About The Role As a Software Engineer on the Engineering Excellence team, you will play a key role in improving developer productivity, strengthening platform reliability, and enhancing security across our engineering organization. You will design, build, and maintain internal platforms, AI-powered tools, and engineering standards that enable teams across Transaction Experience, Payment Rails, Trading Desk, Treasury, Account & Identity, Blockchain, and Card Issuance to move faster and operate more effectively. As part of the Engineering Excellence team, you will help reduce engineering friction, improve system observability and reliability, and promote secure, scalable development practices across the organization. What You Will Do Design, build, and maintain internal tools, platforms, and AI-powered solutions that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency. Support and enhance tooling used by Engineering, Product, and Operations teams. Identify performance bottlenecks and operational inefficiencies across our systems. Debug, troubleshoot, and implement solutions to improve system reliability, scalability, and throughput. Contribute to observability, monitoring, and operational excellence initiatives. Implement and maintain AI security guardrails and governance mechanisms to ensure the safe and compliant adoption of AI technologies. Help evaluate and mitigate risks associated with AI-enabled systems and workflows. Contribute to the development and adoption of engineering standards, guidelines, and best practices. Promote secure, maintainable, and reliable software development across teams. Partner closely with engineering teams across Trading Desk, Blockchain, Payment Rails, Treasury, and other domains to understand challenges and deliver impactful solutions. Gather feedback from internal stakeholders and continuously improve the developer experience across the organization. What We Are Looking For At least 2 years of professional software engineering
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