Software Engineer, Privy

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. We build simple, flexible APIs and tools for developers that make it easy to build new products on crypto rails. Privy owns the abstractions and infrastructure layer above wallets, integrating across chains, third-party providers, and Stripe products like Treasury and Link.

About The Team

Engineering at Privy is distinguished by:

• High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
• Product taste: Customers are developers, requiring technical knowledge to build effective products; engineers will often be "the PM".
• Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. Engineers bring security to their designs from the start.
• Technology: We use Node, React, and AWS to focus engineering energy on Privy's core product, e.g., through hardware enclaves, multi-region low latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions accessible to mainstream developers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems that power wallets, identity, and onchain infrastructure at scale.
• Create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to build faster.
• Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform.
• Help shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Node
• React
• AWS

Qualifications

• Deep experience building and maintaining a production system at scale.
• Understanding of modern API development best practices and design.
• Experience in building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and infrastructure configuration.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• A growth mindset, constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown.
• Ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code, and be pragmatic about moving fast.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to write clear technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in an API-driven business within payments, fintech, or crypto.
• Built or contributed to open-source developer tooling.
• Published work (open source code, talks, blog posts, etc.).
• Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts.
• Experience in authentication, identity, or security.