Staff Software Engineer, Asset Movement

Department: Engineering & Data

Location: Remote - United States, Remote - Canada

Compensation: $212,000 – $242,775 • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus • 15% Annual Salary

Employment Type: FullTime

About Paxos 

Today’s financial infrastructure is archaic, expensive, inefficient and risky — supporting a system that leaves out more people than it lets in. So we’re rebuilding it.

We’re on a mission to open the world’s financial system to everyone by enabling the instant movement of any asset, any time, in a trustworthy way. For over a decade, we’ve built blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for the world’s leading financial institutions, like Mastercard, Visa, Robinhood, and PayPal. 

About the team

The Asset Movement engineering teams at Paxos build secure infrastructure that enables seamless, compliant transfers of digital assets for institutional clients. They modernize treasury systems, abstract financial and blockchain complexities, and deliver unified APIs that support high-volume transactions and mission-critical workflows.

About the role 

As a Staff Software Engineer for the Asset Movement teams, you will set architectural direction, drive cross-team technical initiatives, and enable blueprint-quality asset movement capabilities. Working across both Asset Orchestration and Assets Core teams, your mission is to build scalable, reliable, and innovative systems that simplify digital asset workflows for our institutional clients.

What you’ll do 

• Define and implement technical strategy for stablecoin infrastructure platforms spanning crypto, fiat and orchestration rails

• Architect core reusable services and APIs that drive reliable, compliant, and efficient asset movement across chains and external providers

• Lead cross-team projects to improve performance, observability, security, and developer experience

• Collaborate closely with staff engineers, tech leads, product, and operational partners to drive organizational change

• Foster a culture of technical leadership, transparency, and high standards within and across teams

• Mentor engineers at all levels to elevate system health and engineering best practices

About you

• 8+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems in high-growth technology companies

• Proven track record of leading complex technical initiatives from conception to delivery

• Deep expertise in designing and implementing large-scale, high-performance systems

• Strong experience with microservices architecture and cloud-native technologies

• Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence across teams

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence technical decisions across the organization

• Track record of building automation systems and improving operational efficiency

• Demonstrated experience using AI tools to improve how you work

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Disclaimer: The first week of employment will be conducted in person at our New York City headquarters. By applying to this role, you acknowledge and agree that you will be able to travel to and work from our New York City office for onboarding during this period.

Important Notice for Paxos Applicants

We’ve become aware of fraudulent accounts posting as Paxos recruiters on LinkedIn and other platforms. These scammers attempt to deceive applicants into paying for job opportunities or providing personal financial information.

To verify a legitimate Paxos recruiter:

• We only use @paxos.com email addresses

• We never ask for payment or financial details to apply, interview, or work here

• For technical roles, we do not perform a coding interview without prior screening by our engineering team

Thanks for your interest in Paxos!