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Solutions Engineer, Ledger

Formance · New York · On-site

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About Formance

One programmable ledger for payments, treasury and reconciliation: model any money movement in Numscript, connect every rail, and close your books continuously. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

You help them answer those questions, from the first technical conversation through proof of concept and into a successful transition to implementation. Build trust with technical buyers. Challenge assumptions, answer complex engineering questions, and help prospective customers evaluate how Formance fits into their existing infrastructure. You are comfortable engaging directly with senior technical decision-makers. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in software engineering, solutions engineering, or technical implementation, ideally within payments, banking, fintech infrastructure, or digital assets
  • A strong understanding of how money is tracked in software. You know what double-entry means in practice, or you have worked on systems where balances, transactions, and reconciliation matter
  • Familiarity with real payment flows, including settlement delays, returns, partial failures, and mismatches between internal records and external providers
  • Hands-on technical experience with APIs, databases, and at least one programming language
  • Confidence working with technical buyers. You are comfortable leading technical conversations with engineering leaders, challenging architectural assumptions, and building credibility with highly technical stakeholders
  • The ability to explain complex systems clearly to engineering, finance, and product stakeholders, and an interest in working directly with customers
More about this role

New York (SoHo) · Hybrid, 3 days/week onsite · Full-time

Formance builds open-source financial infrastructure. Our core product is a programmable double-entry ledger. Fintechs, crypto platforms, and financial institutions use it as the source of truth for their balances: every movement of money is recorded as a transaction between accounts, and every balance can be traced back to the postings that produced it.

Around the ledger, we connect to banks and payment providers and reconcile what the ledger records against what actually moved.

We are a team of 30+ people, mostly engineers, working across New York and Paris. Our systems support real money movement, so correctness is not optional.

Our customers are engineering teams building financial products. They come to us with questions like “how do we track user wallets, pending funds, and fees so that every cent is accounted for?” or “what happens to our balances when a payment fails halfway through?”

You help them answer those questions, from the first technical conversation through proof of concept and into a successful transition to implementation.

Design money flows. Turn a customer's product into a ledger model: which accounts...

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