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Staff Software Engineer at River
Staff Software Engineer at River, found 6 days ago on Hacker News. Remote, from the USA. The company takes applications on its own page.
Software engineer
Hacker News
6 days ago
River
River, a Bitcoin-focused financial institution, is hiring a staff-level engineer to work on its core platform. The team builds payments, custody and consumer apps.
What you would do
- Build real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a GraphQL API
- Develop next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing and geo-redundant infrastructure
- Scale ML/AI systems for operations automation and fraud/risk
- Contribute to a React and React Native rewrite of the consumer app
- Port Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir
What they ask for
- Staff-level software engineering experience
- Elixir experience
- Full-time availability
- Open to candidates in the US, Europe or South America
About this job
- Job
- Staff Software Engineer
- Category
- Software engineer
- Company
- River
- Location
- Remote (the USA)
- Work type
- Full time
- Salary
- 200,000 to 250,000 USD a year
- Posted
- on Hacker News, 2 November 2026
- How to apply
- By email to the recruiter, with your CV
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