{"id":1267008,"url":"https://alion.io/job/cyclops-senior-software-engineer-remote-cyclops","title":"Senior Software Engineer (Remote) - Cyclops","company":{"id":2041147,"name":"Cyclops","domain":"cyclops.io","url":"https://alion.io/company/cyclops-io","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"JazzHR","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"unspecified","remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":{"label":"UTC-8 – UTC-5","utc_offset_min":-8,"utc_offset_max":-5},"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":true},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"BullMQ","optional":true},{"name":"Docker","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":true},{"name":"Redis","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T22:43:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T12:21:46Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Role Overview\nWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong backend background, comfortable in a product-driven environment with changing priorities and a high level of ownership. This is a backend-first role (~70%) with occasional frontend tasks (~30%) when features require touching UI or integrating SDKs. Success means owning the technical side end-to-end: shaping technical solutions under uncertainty, taking responsibility for system behavior in production, and contributing to long-term platform evolution alongside Product Managers, the Engineering Manager, and other senior engineers.\nKey Responsibilities\nDesign and implement backend-heavy features using TypeScript and Node.js; build and evolve REST APIs with focus on correctness, consistency, and clear boundaries between services\nWork with SQL (PostgreSQL): data modeling, migrations, and consistency guarantees\nTake full ownership of one or more services, from requirements and implementation to production support, and drive integration work with external partners (vendors, clients) when needed\nOwn production behavior: investigate incidents, debug API failures, analyze data issues, and apply reliability patterns (timeouts, retries, idempotency, graceful degradation)\nImprove observability (logs, metrics, visibility into system behavior) and propose improvements where reliability, performance, or monitoring is weak\nParticipate in tech spikes: explore unclear problems and turn them into concrete technical plans\nCollaborate with Product and EM to clarify requirements and reduce ambiguity early; contribute to technical discussions, raise risks, and explain trade-offs\nReview code, mentor mid-level engineers, and contribute to React code when features require UI updates or customer-facing flows\nRequired Qualifications\n4+ years of professional software development experience\nStrong backend expertise with TypeScript and Node.js\nReal production experience: incidents, debugging, API failures, data issues\nExperience owning a service end-to-end, from requirements to production support\nClear product-level architectural thinking: well-designed APIs, correct data boundaries, proper error handling, ability to reason about trade-offs\nUnderstanding of microservice architectures and platform-level interactions\nStrong knowledge of HTTP APIs, SQL data modeling, and common failure modes\nProficient daily use of AI coding tools (e.g. Claude Code), with the ability to review AI-generated code quickly and critically\nReadiness to build deep working knowledge of crypto and stablecoin payments: prior crypto experience is optional, and deep on-the-job learning of the domain is a mandatory part of the role\nAbility to work with ambiguity: ask the right questions and structure unclear problems, working independently without overly detailed technical specs\nHigh agency: you notice problems before they are assigned to you, raise risks early, and bring a proposed solution together with the problem\nStrong written and verbal communication in English\nPreferred Experience\nExperience in fintech, crypto, payments, high-load or high-reliability systems\nPractical understanding of reliability patterns: retries, timeouts, idempotency, fallback strategies\nExperience with queues or messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS, BullMQ, etc.)\nExperience with Redis or other key-value stores\nFamiliarity with Docker and Kubernetes (user-level understanding is enough)\nBasic understanding of AWS capabilities\nExperience with React (UI tasks, integrations, SDKs)\nReporting Structure\nReports to the Engineering Manager. No direct people management responsibilities.\nLocation\nRemote. USA, Argentina, or Brazil. The role works US business hours (Eastern Time).\nCompensation and Benefits\nAs an independent contractor, you'll enjoy the flexibility to determine how and when you deliver your work, while partnering closely with our team to meet agreed milestones and business objectives. Compensation and engagement terms will be outlined in your contractor agreement.\nAdditional Benefits\nCompany issued laptop\nTechnology Accessories\nAnnual In-Person Full-Team Meetup\n---\nAbout Cyclops\nCyclops is the first stablecoin and crypto infrastructure platform built exclusively for the payments industry. With low and no code solutions, Cyclops is the fastest way for payments companies to bring crypto and stablecoin offerings to market. Founded by crypto and payments industry veterans who built crypto solutions for Shift4, Cyclops enables crypto acceptance, stablecoin settlement and stablecoin payouts for payments companies.\nCyclops has raised a seed round and, more recently, a $20M Series A to accelerate the growth of the most complete stablecoin platform. We move fast, we think rigorously, and hold ourselves to the highest standard in the industry.\n Cyclops Culture\nDon’t join Cyclops if you’re looking for a typical 9-5. The culture we’ve built is one of first-principles thinking and relentless execution. We wake up every day excited to deliver great products worthy of the world’s best companies. 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