Dots — Senior/Staff Engineer

Type: Full-time | On-site | San Francisco, CA · New York City, NY Compensation: $200,000–$280,000 + 0.4%–0.8% equity Hiring count: 4 Visa sponsorship: Yes — H-1B, O-1, OPT Reports to: TBD

Dots is building global payments infrastructure for the future of work — a developer-friendly API that lets businesses pay their contractors in just a few lines of code. The platform already moves $1.5B a year to more than 1 million payees. YC-backed.

Founded: 2021 | Team size: 11–50 | Stage: Series A Industry: FinTech Website: dots.dev Offices: New York, NY (494 8th Ave) · San Francisco, CA (1501 Mariposa St)

• Real scale from day one: Core systems already move $1.5B/year to 1M+ payees, and are being scaled as usage accelerates.
• End-to-end ownership: Own critical infrastructure end-to-end and help shape technical direction as the company grows.
• Early-stage upside: Series A stage with strong cash comp ($200K–$280K) plus meaningful equity (0.4%–0.8%).

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Senior and Staff Engineers to own critical payments infrastructure end-to-end and help shape technical direction as usage scales.

• →Design and build scalable, production-ready backend systems for high throughput
• →Move fast and build systems that may be scrappy, iterating as the company grows
• →Own critical infrastructure end-to-end and drive technical direction

Tech stack: React (frontend), Python (backend), AWS, ECS; GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion

• You have 7+ of experience designing and building scalable production ready systems
• You are able to move fast and build systems that may be scrappy
• You have worked with large amounts of data and designing scalable backend systems for high throughput
• You have a track record of launching and iterating on apps or large software projects

• FinTech and finance experience
• Experience from traditional finance companies (Bloomberg, JP Morgan)
• Been at a startup around Seed/Series A for 3-4 years
• Experience from companies growing quickly like Stripe or Ramp
• Understanding fintech and being development forward

• Only worked for random creative agencies
• No startup experience

• Location: San Francisco, CA · New York City, NY
• Work policy: In-person
• Compensation: $200,000–$280,000 + equity
• Visa sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT
• Employment type: Full-time

• None provided on the role page.

Stage 1 — Pending Approval — Candidates awaiting initial approval. Stage 2 — Phone Screen — Initial phone screening. Stage 3 — Virtual Technical Screen — Pair programming, backend-heavy build from scratch. Stage 4 — Virtual Systems Design — Work together through a problem. Stage 5 — On-site — On-site interview if take-home is successful. Stage 6 — Offer Extended Stage 7 — Candidate Hired — Candidate accepts and starts.

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