Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure

OVERVIEW

We are seeking a software engineer with a focus on data infrastructure to join the Modern Treasury Engineering team. In this role, you will lead the design and implementation of our next-generation data platform, while also building the infrastructure required to scale Modern Treasury's products. Our core payments product helps businesses move and track money, reconciling over $2.5 billion in monthly volume. Our ledgers product, a unique managed database, helps customers maintain a reliable source of truth for high-volume financial transactions and is already tracking hundreds of millions of dollars. Additionally, our reconciliation product identifies and matches financial transactions across systems, using AI to improve match rates over time.

Our products feature intricate data architectures with stringent reliability and stability requirements. We are seeking an infrastructure expert to guide essential architectural decisions during development. This role may be a perfect fit for you if:

• You have designed, built, and launched new dimensional models, data pipelines, and large-scale data and analytical platforms, leveraging data systems, open source, or cloud technologies while mentoring others in efficient querying.

• You have introduced and driven adoption of analytics frameworks to help internal stakeholders understand customer experiences and user engagement. You have also worked with engineering teams to improve & guarantee data quality, privacy and security of the data platform.

• You have experience with multiple infrastructure layers, including storage, networking, orchestration, deployment, data processing, observability, and monitoring, ensuring high reliability and availability on both bare-metal and cloud providers.

Our API is often the most critical piece of infrastructure that our customers use. We place a premium on building robust, scalable systems that can sustain a high volume of API calls and exceed the reliability requirements to move money at scale. We complement this with well-thought out interfaces for our users and pride in writing quality API docs.

We believe in using the best tool for the job, rather than always using open source or building things ourselves. We actively embrace open source in parts of our system but aren't afraid to roll our own solution for things like writing and parsing bank files.

In addition to our API, we have had a web platform since day 1 that is used by accountants, controllers, and engineers. They use our platform to do things like manage payment workflows and monitor their business. As an engineer, you will work with our product team to build products and features for these users.

ABOUT MODERN TREASURY

At Modern Treasury, we're dedicated to empowering businesses with cutting-edge technology to streamline and optimize their financial workflows, from payments and reconciliations to treasury management. As a rapidly growing startup, we offer a fast-paced and collaborative work environment where your contributions will have a significant impact on shaping the future of finance.

WEEK BY WEEK

During your first week you will:

• Get to know our leadership, culture, and values

• Onboard with the engineering team

• Ship your first commit on day 1

• Take on 1-2 small tickets to address bugs or make minor improvements

• Read our favorite industry primers

During your first six weeks you will:

• Ship your first major project

• Write your first blog post. We love writing at Modern Treasury (and have been on the front page of Hacker News multiple times with posts like "What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?" and "How to Build an Insurance Company")

• Shadow a few customer and partner meetings every week

During your first six months you will:

• Work with our product team to scope and ship products for both our engineering and finance users

• Help grow our team by mentoring new engineers, writing internal tooling and documentation, and interviewing new hires

WHAT YOU SHOULD HAVE

• Over 5 years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering with a strong data focus.

• Proficiency with relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL) and columnar data stores (e.g. Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, HBase, ClickHouse).

• Hands-on experience with ETL schedulers such as DBT, Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue, or similar frameworks.

• Experience in containerization and cloud-native deployments.

TECHNOLOGIES WE USE

• Ruby on Rails for our backend framework

• React, GraphQL, and Tailwind CSS on the frontend

• Postgres for our database

• Redis for caching

• AWS for infrastructure and hosting

• Docker for containerization

• GitHub for source code management

• Buildkite for continuous integration

Modern Treasury is committed to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate in any employment opportunities or practices based on an individual's race, color, creed, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), religion (all aspects of religious beliefs, observance or practice, including religious dress or grooming practices), marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry (including language use restrictions and possession of a driver’s license issued under California Vehicle Code section 12801.9), natural hair, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, medical condition (including cancer or a record or history of cancer, and genetic characteristics), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical condition), genetic information, sexual orientation, military and veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws. It also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.

Modern Treasury participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.