Build and operate stablecoin payments infrastructure, including payment orchestration, double-entry ledgering, bank and payment-rail integrations, issuer and liquidity-provider APIs, reconciliation, settlement handling, monitoring, and incident response. The role partners with compliance, operations, and finance to design secure systems for real-money movement.
About Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a global investment firm focused on the future of money, markets, and intelligence. With origins in crypto and over $3.5 billion in assets under management, we invest in generational companies and protocols across the frontier of finance and technology. We're a team of seasoned VCs, technologists, and markets experts with deep roots in New York, Silicon Valley, and Asia. We've published some of the industry's most widely read research on stablecoins, market structure, decentralized finance, networks, protocol security, and increasingly, the intersection of finance and AI.
This is an application to join our talent network. This is not a listing for an internal role at Dragonfly.
We’re actively sourcing for a Founding Payments Engineer to join a small, well-capitalized team building stablecoin payments infrastructure. You’ll be the person the rest of the company looks to on anything that moves money, with a real voice on product and who gets hired next.
Location: NYC (priority), open to exceptional candidates in SF or remote across the USA
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience building and operating production payments systems that moved real money (ledger, payments engine, or bank integration), and being on call when they broke
- Exceptionally strong backend engineer: data modeling, transactional guarantees, concurrency, failure modes of distributed systems
- Deep understanding of how money actually moves: ACH returns, wire cutoffs, RTP and FedNow settlement, FBO accounts, pending vs. settled balances
- Security mindset by default
About the Role:
- Design and build the payment orchestration engine and double-entry ledger, the system of record for every transfer, conversion, and settlement
- Integrate with sponsor banks and payment rails (ACH, wires, RTP, FedNow), including FBO account structures
- Integrate with stablecoin issuer APIs, liquidity providers, and OTC desks
- Own reconciliation end to end across bank statements, issuer balances, onchain state, and the ledger
- Turn messy payment-state problems (returns, reversals, partial fills, delayed settlement) into durable platform capabilities and APIs
- Partner with compliance, operations, and finance to turn regulatory requirements into system design
- Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response for live money movement
Compensation
- Mid: $150,000–$200,000 + meaningful equity
- Senior: $200,000–$250,000 + meaningful equity
The compensation range reflects variation by seniority, location, and hiring company. Final compensation is confirmed with the specific hiring company.
Even if you don’t match every point above but have relevant experience in Solana, smart contracts, or crypto infrastructure, we encourage you to apply. There may be other opportunities that fit your skill set.
Process:
- We’ll confidentially match you with portfolio companies aligned with your background, skill set, and interests
- If mutual interest exists between you and a team, we’ll facilitate a warm introduction
- If there isn’t a match today, we’ll keep you top of mind for future opportunities
Submit your information below, and we’ll reach out if there’s a potential fit.
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