Software Engineer, Privy

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Who We Are

About Privy

Our mission is to make privacy and user ownership the default online. To do so, 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. We solve hard technical problems while leveraging Stripe's distribution to reach customers such as Ramp, Klarna, Deel, Kraken, Hyperliquid, and Fomo, powering experiences for both mainstream users and crypto natives.

Learn more about Privy: Privy and Stripe: Bringing crypto to everyone

About the Team

Engineering at Privy is distinguished by:

• High urgency: Shipping very small iterations, very fast, to learn very quickly.
• Product taste: Our customers are developers, and building effective products for them requires technical knowledge. You will often be “the PM.”
• Security mindset: A great portion of our product is trust. While we have a dedicated security team, every engineer brings security to their designs from the start.

In practice, we use technology such as Node, React, and AWS so we can focus our engineering energy on pushing the boundaries of Privy's core product, including hardware enclaves, multi-region low-latency APIs, and blockchain abstractions accessible to mainstream developers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the 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 the core platform.
• Help shape the technical direction through high-leverage engineering work.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• Deep experience building and maintaining a production system at scale.
• An understanding of modern API development best practices and design.
• Experience building data models, managing database migrations and best practices, and configuring infrastructure.
• An ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• A growth mindset, constant curiosity, and fearlessness to dive into the unknown.
• An ability to write maintainable, well-tested, modular code while remaining pragmatic about moving quickly.
• 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.
• Experience building or contributing to open-source developer tooling.
• Published work, such as open-source code, talks, or blog posts.
• Experience working with blockchain protocols and designing or interacting with smart contracts.
• Experience in authentication, identity, or security.

Technology

Node, React, AWS, APIs, distributed systems, databases, infrastructure configuration, blockchain protocols, smart contracts, authentication, identity, security, and hardware enclaves.