Staff Software Engineer, TRUST Network

Quick Facts

• Role: Staff Software Engineer (TRUST Network)

Description

You will help define the technical direction of the TRUST network as it grows into the operating layer for Travel Rule compliance. This role is hands-on architecture across network services and protocols, with leadership for SDKs/APIs and infrastructure-as-code. You’ll also build reliability and member-facing monitoring practices while keeping sensitive data protected.

Responsibilities

• Define the short- and long-term strategic vision for the TRUST network and sequence it into an engineering roadmap with Product
• Lead architecture across the network: services, protocols, and integration patterns for member discovery, address registration, counterparty identification, and secure data exchange
• Partner with product, legal, and compliance to translate a rapidly changing regulatory landscape into designs that hold up to scrutiny
• Lead SDKs, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code templates with engineers across the industry to cut member onboarding from weeks to days
• Establish network reliability practices and member-facing monitoring without exposing sensitive customer data
• Raise the engineering bar by writing critical code, leading design reviews and incident retrospectives, and mentoring engineers

Requirements

• Deep understanding of distributed systems, including idempotency, retries, ordering, and partial failure across independently operated services
• Proven track record leading cross-functional teams on multi-quarter projects with measurable outcomes
• Experience owning production architecture for backend services: API design, asynchronous processing, data modeling, security, and observability
• Ability to turn ambiguous, multi-stakeholder problems into a technical strategy and explain trade-offs to technical and nontechnical partners
• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• 401(k)
• Equity and bonus eligibility (where applicable)