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Software Engineer

Modern Treasury

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NEW YORK, NY
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Job overview

Modern Treasury Corporation seeks a Software Engineer to design and develop infrastructure for payments products. The role focuses on backend services, financial data and payment orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and delivery workflows. It also involves performance and security work, collaboration with product managers and frontend engineers, and technical documentation. Applicants need a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent, and two years of relevant experience.

Skills & qualifications

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Skills

Ruby on RailsPostgresTerraformAWSData MigrationCI/CDBuildkiteDockerPerformance TuningSecurity Best PracticesTechnical SpecificationAPI DocumentationSystem Architecture

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related Field or Equivalent2 Years Relevant Experience

Full job description

Design and develop software infrastructure for payments products. Specific duties include: designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails to support complex financial transactions and payment orchestration; designing and optimizing Postgres database schemas to manage large-scale datasets, ensuring sub-millisecond query responsiveness and data integrity; utilizing Terraform to manage and provision cloud infrastructure on AWS (Amazon Web Services), ensuring environment consistency across development, staging, and production; executing complex migrations of large-scale financial datasets while maintaining system availability and minimizing latency for real-time insights; automating and optimizing continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) workflows using tools like Buildkite and Docker to streamline the delivery of payment infrastructure; monitoring and tuning system performance to handle increasing data volumes (targeting double the current capacity) and high-concurrency UI (user interface) requirements; implementing security best practices for handling sensitive financial data, ensuring all services meet rigorous enterprise-grade security and compliance standards; partnering with product managers and frontend engineers to define technical requirements and translate product visions into robust technical specifications; authoring and maintaining detailed technical documentation for API (application programming interface) endpoints, system architecture, and infrastructure configurations to support internal engineering teams. Requires: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or the equivalent and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or similar position. To apply email resumes referencing Req. #SWE26 to [email protected]

How this job compares

Set against the 34,041 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • New York median$160–230K/yr2,151 salary ranges
  • New York median$50–55/hr43 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 2,732 open Software Engineer jobs in New York and 34,041 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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Experience
This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 27,547 postings).
Education
12,670 of the 34,041 open Software Engineer jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

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