About the Role

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full-stack efforts, collaborate with cross-functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high-scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast-paced, startup-like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance.

Responsibilities

Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments.
Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products.
Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms.
Build and maintain fullstack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics.
Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.

Basic Qualifications

Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments; languages like Rust, Go, Python & Java, and high volume streaming systems.
2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications.

Preferred Skills and Experience

5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and AI solutions.

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

Requirements

Backend development

Proficiency in designing and optimizing backend services and microservices.

Distributed systems

Experience with high-scale, low-latency distributed systems.

Programming languages

Familiarity with Rust, Go, Python, and Java.

Consumer applications

At least 2 years of experience working on large scale consumer applications.

Nice to Have

Startup experience

Experience in early-mid stage startups as a founding engineer.

Rapid prototyping

Emphasis on user-centric design and AI solutions.

Benefits

Equity

Employees receive equity as part of the compensation package.

Health coverage

Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage is provided.

Retirement plan

Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Disability insurance

Short & long-term disability insurance is included.

Life insurance

Life insurance coverage is part of the benefits.