Python Backend Engineer (Payments/Crypto)

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who is familiar working with crypto payment protocols and payment infra, worked with clearing, settlement, netting, swaps. You’ll help us power core payment and swap logic - aggregating prices, executing orders, acquiring.

    What you will do:

• Build modules to settle, aggregate and execute payments.
• Deeply work with major CEX’s APIs to route swaps. 
• Build a payments reconciliation engine.
• Design and optimize systems for high-load environments with low-latency constraints

     Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in payment infra or crypto.
• Strong understanding of financial products (swaps, forwards, clearing, settling, netting rules, reconciliation, payments segregation, acquiring)
• Experience with batch settlement logic and handling financial transaction pipelines
• Familiarity with crypto-price formation and performance trade-offs
• Solid background in designing systems that are reliable, maintainable, and secure
• Knowledge of financial protocols (FIX, ISO 20022)
   

    Would be beneficial:

• Knowledge of financial protocols (FIX, ISO 20022, SWIFT) 
• Experience working with delivery protocols (The Graph, GRPC)
• Experience working with HFT, hedging, liquidity management.
• Financial analytical skills.

     Soft skills:

• Have an owner mentality - focus on ultimate results, focus on strategical growing the business for the future vs research for the sake of research 
• You love problem-solving, love seeing your product work and do whatever it takes to do what’s needed  
• You’re structured, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-moving early-stage environment

• You have ambitions, you pursue your goals with relentless determination and don't stop until they are achieved

  
  How to apply

• Only apply if this role genuinely excites you - we aren’t just hiring a position. If you are simply looking for a job, this probably isn’t the right place.
• Take a moment to explore what Balancify is building. If you’re curious, if our mission speaks to you and you see yourself growing with us - wed love to hear from you.
• Write us a short, honest note  about why you see your future at Balancify.
• Please don’t use AI to write cover letter. We are looking for people who think independently and care deeply - not just about what they do, but why they do it.
• We care most about: your tight focused skills - the ones that fit today.
• Your soft skills and mindset. The value you able to bring into the room.
• Even if your breakdown doesn’t obviously match, help us understand how it does - or could.