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From late stage high growth fintechs and platforms to early stage upstart neobanks, -use Routefusion to accept and send global bank-to-bank payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to liberate global financial infrastructure for every business, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.\nAbout the team\nRoutefusion builds the internet's economic infrastructure, making money transactions easy and connecting the world's economies. We're a small and efficient team. We meet in office a few times a week to whiteboard, collaborate and eat great lunches. We have a hybrid in person culture where we do expect you to come in a few times a week for in person collaboration, but after those meetings we do not care if you are working from home or the beach (if Austin had one...cough cough secret beach**).\nAbout the role\nAs a Staff Engineer, you will be a critical technical leader, driving the evolution of our core systems that make up our global infrastructure and ultimately serve people and financial systems around the globe. You will partner with many functions at Routefusion, and will be a key influencer in defining technical strategy, education, and culture within the engineering organization. You will work on complex systems and ensure security, scalability, and reliability throughout the stack.\nThe right engineer will allow us to scale faster and more reliably as our business accelerates. 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