The vacancy is well-structured with clear responsibilities and compensation, but lacks some company information.
Job description
Diversity is at the heart of who we are at Xapo Bank. We’re a fully distributed team of over 150 Xapiens that work remotely from 30+ countries around the world. Our beginning: A world that enjoys economic freedom and wealth protection, no matter where you live or who is running your country. To achieve that, we search the world for the best people for the job. We work hard, think globally, and inspire each other to learn and grow. We are committed to changing the way things are done.
Responsibilities
- Own and facilitate the Architectural Advice Forum (AAF), driving decentralised decision-making that is captured as ADRs.
- Personally build production-grade Proofs of Concept to de-risk new patterns, validate architectural ideas and demonstrate “what good looks like” ahead of broader adoption.
- Partner with the CTO on Xapo’s AI strategy, identifying high-value opportunities, evaluating tooling, prototyping solutions and helping engineering teams adopt AI responsibly across the SDLC and our customer-facing products.
- Own cross-cutting standardisation across backend, web and mobile engineering, patterns, paradigms, observability, security, testing and delivery.
- Define and uphold the engineering quality bar across backend, web and mobile.
- Embed Security-First Architecture across everything we build.
- Champion Domain-Driven Design and Event-Driven Architecture.
- Work closely with the SRE team on reliability, capacity, incident response, observability and the evolution of our internal developer platform.
- Coach and mentor engineers across SATs, platform and enabling teams.
- Surface and unblock systemic technical risks, technical debt and cross-team dependencies before they hit production.
- Maintain Xapo’s engineering principles and Tech Radar.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years in an Architect, Staff or equivalent senior-IC role.
- A strong track record as a hands-on engineer-turned-architect.
- Deep experience designing, building and operating distributed, event-driven systems in production.
- Hands-on experience with Domain-Driven Design.
- Practical familiarity with decentralised architectural governance.
- Demonstrated ability to lead by influence rather than authority.
- Experience working in regulated fintech, payments or banking environments.
- Deep experience designing security-first architectures.
- A strong perspective on modern AI/ML, LLMs, agents and applied AI in production.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
Conditions
- Impact Globally, Work Remotely.
- Great work-life balance with flexible PTO.
- Collaborate, learn, and grow with a high-performance team.
- Yearly budget for individual learning and development goals.
About Xapo61
Xapo61 appears to be an entity associated with Xapo Bank, a fintech company providing secure Bitcoin wallet, custody, USD banking services, debit card, and integration of cryptocurrency with traditional banking. It operates globally as a regulated private bank licensed by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission, enabling users to manage Bitcoin and USD for transactions, wealth growth, and global payments.