Software Engineer; Platform Core Team

About Us

At Félix, we're building the financial ecosystem for Latin immigrants in the U.S., starting with a revolution in remittances. Our core product is an AI-powered chatbot built on Whats App, allowing our users to send money home as easily as sending a text message. We leverage cutting‑edge technology like AI, blockchain, and stable coins to make cross-border payments faster, more affordable, and more accessible than ever before.

At Félix, we're building the financial ecosystem for Latin immigrants in the U.S., starting with a revolution in remittances. Our core product is an AI-powered chatbot built on Whats App, allowing our users to send money home as easily as sending a text message. We leverage cutting‑edge technology like AI, blockchain, and stable coins to make cross-border payments faster, more affordable, and more accessible than ever before.

We are a hyper‑growth Series B company, backed by over $100 million in funding from top‑tier global investors, including QED, Castle Island, Switch Ventures, HTwenty, Monashees, and General Catalyst Customer Value Fund. This isn't just about the numbers; it's a testament to the trust our investors have in our vision and our team. Additionally, Félix was selected as an “Endeavour Entrepreneur” and was a recipient of the Cross Tech Fintech Startups Award.

We are a group of extremely talented and dedicated high‑performers, united by our shared obsession with a single goal: empowering our customers. We are all owners of Félix, driven by a bias for action and a true experimentation spirit to get shit done with urgency and focus.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Platform Core team, you will join a high‑caliber group responsible for the foundational services and infrastructure that power Félix’s products. You will identify bottlenecks, improve system efficiency, and ensure that our services can support the company’s continued growth while maintaining a high level of availability.

This role requires balancing rapid execution with sound engineering principles. You will participate in the development of customer‑facing and business‑critical features in a fast‑paced environment, ensuring that new functionality is delivered without compromising system stability or accumulating unnecessary technical debt. Success in this role requires curiosity, strong technical judgment, and the ability to think beyond individual components to deliver solutions that benefit the organization as a whole.

The ideal candidate is someone who enjoys solving complex distributed systems problems, takes ownership of outcomes, and is passionate about building systems that are scalable, reliable, and easy for other teams to build upon.

• Front‑end:
  React, HTTP, HTML/DOM, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX
• Back‑end:
  Python, Flask/FastAPI, REST APIs, Redis, SQL, gRPC
• Cloud:
  Google Cloud services (Firestore, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Google Artifact Registry, Cloud Run, Big Query, Cloud Composer, etc.)
• Infrastructure:
  Kubernetes, Terraform, New Relic, Pager Duty

• Architect & Build:
  Design, build, and optimize foundational microservices and infrastructure that power the company’s products.
• System Resilience:
  Improve the resilience of the platform by designing systems that gracefully handle failures. Implement monitoring and observability solutions, improve incident response processes, and build mechanisms such as retries, circuit breakers, fallbacks, and automated recovery strategies.
• Scalability & Performance:
  Identify bottlenecks, improve system efficiency, and ensure services support continued hyper‑growth while maintaining high availability.
• Strategic Technical Leadership:
  Set the architectural vision for the platform. Understand how services interact, how data flows through the system, and how decisions made in one area impact the broader platform.
• Cross‑Squad
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Work alongside other Staff Engineers across Payments, Disbursements, and GRC to align on shared infrastructure, API contracts, and event‑driven standards.
• Mentorship & Talent Development:
  Mentor Senior and Mid‑level engineers, championing best practices in system design, testing,…