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title: Software Engineer, Payments Product Lead
description: Aptos is a high-performance Layer 1 designed for financial services: sub-second settlement at sub-cent cost, production reliability institutions build on, and native stablecoins including assets exclusive to the network. We are consolidating our commercial efforts into one financial services company , payments, tokenization, and trading , and payments is the first chartered business: a ring-fenced unit with its own P&L, an exclusive global settlement partnership already signed, first-party products already shipped (keyless onboarding, multisig treasury, confidential payments), and clear evidence gates at 90 days, 6 months, and 24 months. This role is the founding technical leader of that unit. You are hire number one of the engineering team, and the build you lead defines the business. Responsibilities The Aptos Payment API. Spec, ship, and run the single API businesses integrate against , wrapping partner infrastructure today, with an orchestration engine routing across a licensed partner network as the business earns it. You write the spec bottoms-up from partner and client requirements. Partner-facing engineering. You are the technical face of the unit: requirements intake, integration leadership, and technical diligence with banks, EMIs, PSPs, stablecoin issuers, and e-wallet platforms. The trust infrastructure. Revenue attribution and reconciliation (the system that proves which volume is ours), a single-window KYC/KYB integration, a testnet sandbox that lets any prospect try the stack before compliance onboarding, and a native-asset-only settlement policy , no bridges. Integration with the trading stack. Our trading team builds the RFQ liquidity and tokenized-FX systems; you own the payments side of that seam , routing corridor FX through their venue, defining the API contract between the two systems, and making the handoff invisible to clients. The team and the calls. Hire and lead the first two engineers; grow the team only as revenue triggers fire. Make the…
date posted: 2026-08-03T22:09:14.737Z
valid through: 2026-10-02T22:09:14.737Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: payment infrastructure
skills: chain-native settlement
skills: stablecoin rails
skills: wallet infrastructure
skills: Move
skills: Rust
skills: engineering judgment
skills: APAC corridor experience
skills: FX and market-structure fluency
skills: payments regulation
skills: 0→1 founding engineer experience
hiring organization: Aptos
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: Palo Alto
    address region: California
    address country: US
employment type: FULL_TIME