We are seeking a talented Software Engineer to join our X Money team, focused on building a revolutionary global payment network that will serve over 600 million users and rival the world’s largest financial institutions. In this role, you will specialize in backend development, designing and optimizing robust microservices to ensure scalability, security, and reliability. You will support full‑stack efforts, collaborate with cross‑functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance initiatives, and contribute to the creation of a high‑scale financial products platform. This is an opportunity to work on greenfield projects in a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment, driving innovation at the intersection of AI and finance.
Member of Technical Staff - X Money at xAI
On-site - New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA
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USD 180,000 - 440,000
Requirements
Skills
- Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments
- Experience with languages such as Rust, Go, Python and Java
- Knowledge of high-volume streaming systems
- 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications
- 5+ years of experience or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer
- Rapid prototyping and user‑centric design skills
- Experience with AI solutions
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments
- Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products
- Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms
- Build and maintain fullstack features including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics
- Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high‑concurrency, low‑latency systems
- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling
Technologies
RustGoPythonJavaDistributed systemsMicroservicesiOSAndroidWebPaymentsFraud detectionCompliance initiatives
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