# Software Engineer, Payments Product Lead

**Company**: Aptos
**Location**: Palo Alto, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $160k - $260k
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## 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 build-vs-buy decisions (orchestration components, KYC tooling) with written memos at each gate.

**First 90 Days**

- Publish the Payment API v1 spec and ship the testnet sandbox.

- Stand up revenue attribution v1 and harden USDT/USDC settlement rails to production grade.

- Ship the first client integration hands-on, end to end.

- Draft the orchestration build-vs-buy memo that frames the unit's biggest technical decision.

**Requirements**

- 8+ years building payment infrastructure at production scale , PSP or orchestrator-class systems: cross-border rails, on/off-ramps, virtual accounts, reconciliation.

- Hands-on chain-native settlement experience: stablecoin rails, ramp integrations, wallet infrastructure. Move or Rust a plus; strong engineering judgment on any stack a must.

- Front-facing gravitas: banks, issuers, and regulated partners treat you as a peer. You've led external technical relationships, not just internal roadmaps.

- A product engineer's instincts: you build bottoms-up from what clients and partners actually need, and you treat existing internal products as assets to resell , not constraints to build around.

- Player-coach by default: you ship code, then hire people better than you at parts of it.

**Nice to Have**

- APAC corridor experience , e-wallet ecosystems, QR rails, regional licensing landscapes.

- Enough FX and market-structure fluency to be a strong counterpart to the trading team on the RFQ integration.

- Working familiarity with payments regulation (money transmission, MiCA, Singapore PS Act) , enough to design with counsel, not practice law.

- A prior 0→1: founding engineer, first technical hire, or owner of a product line from blank page to revenue.

**Benefits**

- 100% insurance premium coverage for medical, dental, and vision for you and your dependents (US Employees)

- Equipment of your choice

- Flexible vacation time, 11 holidays, and floating company days off

- Competitive Salary

- Protocol Token Grants

- 401k matching (US Employees)

- Fun and inclusive in-person and digital events

## Skills

### Required
- payment infrastructure
- chain-native settlement
- stablecoin rails
- wallet infrastructure
- Move
- Rust
- engineering judgment

### Nice to have
- APAC corridor experience
- FX and market-structure fluency
- payments regulation
- 0→1 founding engineer experience

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