Senior/Staff Engineer

Senior/Staff Engineer

Company: Dots
Location: New York, NY or San Francisco, CA
Compensation: $200,000 - $280,000 + 0.4% - 0.8% equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT

About Dots

Dots is building global payments infrastructure for the future of work, moving about $1.5B a year to more than 1 million payees. Revenue grew 400%+ in the past year and the company reached profitability in 2025.

Dots (Y Combinator S21) raised an $8.9M Series A led by DCM, bringing total funding to $14.8M+. It has offices in New York (8th Ave) and San Francisco (Mariposa St).

The Role

Dots is looking for senior and staff engineers who take risks, iterate, and want a say in every decision. You will design and build scalable, production-ready systems that move money at high throughput, set a high bar, and help drive the company's vision to change how money moves.

What You Will Do

• Design and build scalable backend systems for high-throughput money movement.
• Move fast and build pragmatic systems, then iterate on them.
• Work with large volumes of data.
• Launch and iterate on applications and large software projects.

What You Bring

• 7+ years designing and building scalable, production-ready systems
• Experience with large data volumes and high-throughput backend design
• A track record of launching and iterating on apps or large software projects
• Comfort moving fast in an ambiguous environment

Nice to Have

• FinTech or finance experience
• AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure experience
• Python and React at scale

Benefits

Private medical insurance including dental and vision, unlimited vacation, regular team off-sites and a 401(k).

Tech Stack

React frontend; Python backend; AWS, ECS; GitHub, Linear, Slack, Notion

REVENUE: 14.2% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $28K-$40K; 4 seat(s) = up to $136K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Stripe, Plaid, Brex, Ramp, Deel, Payoneer, Tipalti.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 7+ (listing says 6+) yrs; scalable high-throughput backend; shipped large projects; visa: H-1B, O-1, OPT; location: NYC or SF office.