About the Role
You'll own the full lifecycle of how money moves through Codex, working directly with founders and cross-functional teams to build fast, reliable, and compliant systems. You will have significant influence over architecture and ownership of a critical domain, building impactful solutions from day one.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical integration of third-party payment providers, including offramp/payout flows, API integration, and sandbox/testnet testing.
- Design and implement the architecture for how 1P and 3P flows interact, considering coupling, maintainability, and risk.
- Integrate payment rails globally, including banks, PSPs, and liquidity providers.
- Build the document storage and invoice pipeline to support third-party operational workflows.
- Coordinate with Legal and Compliance on third-party integration questions.
- Build and maintain settlement, reconciliation, and ledger systems for fiat and crypto flows.
- Build stablecoin on/off-ramp flows and supporting crypto-specific compliance tooling.
- Lead significant backend refactors to improve system correctness and maintainability.
- Design and maintain order management systems, including cancellation logic, state validation, and payout flows.
- Build internal operations tooling to surface pending manual payout queues to non-engineering teams.
- Build and maintain end-to-end onboarding infrastructure, including KYC/KYB flows, identity verification integrations, and risk scoring.
- Own the KYT integration layer across fiat and crypto deposit and order workflows.
- Build transaction monitoring, AML, and sanctions screening systems.
- Maintain compliance data infrastructure, including audit logs, reporting pipelines, and regulatory submissions.
- Implement KYT layering across third-party flows and contribute to design decisions on its application.
Requirements
- 3 to 5 years of backend engineering experience.
- Meaningful depth in payments/rails or compliance/onboarding.
- Strong system design instincts; experience building systems that handle failure gracefully and scale without becoming a maintenance burden.
- Experience working cross-functionally with compliance, legal, or operations teams.
- Comfortable with ambiguity; ability to translate regulatory requirements or business needs into technical specifications.
- Takes full ownership and moves fast without cutting corners.
Skills
- Payments/rails
- Compliance/onboarding
- System design
- Backend engineering
- Crypto or stablecoin infrastructure (nice to have)
- On-chain settlement (nice to have)
- Blockchain analytics tooling (nice to have)
- Startup or scale-up experience (nice to have)
Location
- Singapore
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Mid-level
About the Company
- Codex is building the infrastructure for stablecoin-based cross-border payments, aiming to make money movement faster, cheaper, and more transparent than traditional systems.
- Backed by prominent investors including Circle, Coinbase, Dragonfly, Wintermute, and Cumberland.
- A small team focused on solving complex problems at the intersection of crypto and global payments.
