À propos de ce poste Staff Engineer - Tech Lead chez Breeze
At Breeze, we're building the AI-powered infrastructure layer for global commerce, making it radically simpler for businesses to sell, get paid, and operate across markets.
We go far beyond traditional payment processing. Breeze combines global payments, AI, stablecoins, and a Merchant of Record-like model to take on the complexity businesses typically manage themselves, including compliance, risk, fraud, chargebacks, reconciliation, and customer support.
Our goal is simple: let businesses focus on building and selling great products while Breeze handles the complexity behind getting paid.
Backed by Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital, and The Chainsmokers, Breeze is a successful, rapidly growing, and exceptionally well-capitalized company. We have the runway to think long term while remaining early enough that every person joining today can have a meaningful impact on what we build.
Overview
We are hiring for our first Tech Lead in the US, you'll serve as the technical anchor for our New York engineering team. This is a hands-on individual contributor role focused on technical execution, mentorship, and helping engineers deliver high-quality software.
You'll work alongside a growing team of engineers, providing technical guidance, conducting code reviews, helping unblock complex challenges, and driving sound engineering decisions. While this is not a people management role, you'll play an important part in helping the team grow by raising the technical bar and supporting less experienced engineers through day-to-day collaboration.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building products, solving difficult technical problems, and helping a team move faster through strong technical leadership and execution.
What You'll Do
- Design, build, and ship high-quality software across Breeze's products and platform.
- Act as the technical point of contact for the US engineering team, helping drive execution and technical decision-making.
- Conduct thorough code reviews and provide actionable feedback that improves code quality and engineering standards.
- Help unblock engineers by providing guidance on architecture, implementation, debugging, and system design challenges.
- Partner closely with Product and Design to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
- Lead technical design discussions and help evaluate trade-offs between speed, scalability, and maintainability.
- Mentor and support junior engineers through pairing, technical coaching, and knowledge sharing.
- Drive engineering best practices across testing, observability, reliability, and software development workflows.
- Collaborate closely with global engineering teams to ensure alignment and consistency across projects.
- Take ownership of complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.
- Previous experience operating as a Tech Lead, Senior Engineer, Staff Engineer, or similar senior technical individual contributor.
- Strong software architecture and system design experience.
- Proven ability to guide technical decisions and influence engineering outcomes without formal management authority.
- Extensive experience conducting code reviews and mentoring engineers.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to navigate ambiguity in fast-moving startup environments.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Passion for building high-quality products and helping teams succeed.
Nice to Have
- Experience in fintech, payments, crypto, or other highly regulated industries.
- Experience mentoring and supporting early-career engineers.
- Experience working in startup or high-growth environments.
- Experience working across distributed engineering organizations.
- Experience building scalable backend systems and developer infrastructure.
Why Join Breeze
- Make an outsized impact: We're successful and still early, with meaningful traction and strong financial foundations. Lean teams, few layers, and direct access to decision-makers mean you'll have real ownership and the autonomy to make things happen.
- Solve hard, meaningful problems: Work at the intersection of AI, payments, stablecoins, risk, compliance, financial infrastructure, and global commerce as we build an intelligent infrastructure layer that goes far beyond payments.
- Build AI-first: AI isn't an add-on. It's central to how we're building our products and how our teams operate. You'll experiment with new tools, automate the repetitive, and continuously rethink how to work smarter.
- Work with an exceptional team: Join ambitious, curious, low-ego people who move quickly, hold a high bar, and care deeply about what they build.
- Grow with Breeze: As Breeze grows, strong performers can quickly expand their scope and take on bigger problems.
- Build for the long term: Backed by Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital, and The Chainsmokers, we're exceptionally well-capitalized with the runway to think big.
In-Office Expectations
Employees based in our New York City, NY office follow a hybrid work model and are expected to work from the office three days per week. Employees based in our Singapore office are expected to work on-site five days per week.
In-office expectations may vary slightly depending on role, team, and business needs. Certain roles that require closer cross-functional collaboration or operational support may have additional requirements, which will be discussed during the interview process.
Our approach is designed to support meaningful in-person collaboration, team building, and real-time decision-making while providing flexibility where applicable. We believe this structure enables strong execution, close collaboration, and effective teamwork across our global offices.
Come Build With Us!
We offer a rare combination: the ownership and speed of an early-stage company with the traction, backing, and financial foundations of a successful business.
We're building at the convergence of AI, payments, stablecoins, financial infrastructure, and global commerce. The opportunity is much bigger than building another payment processor.
We're building the intelligent infrastructure layer for global commerce, and there's still an enormous amount left to build.
If you want meaningful ownership, hard problems, exceptional teammates, and the opportunity to help define what comes next, we'd love to hear from you!
