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River | Senior + Staff Engineers (Elixir, React, ML/AI) | SF or NYC or REMOTE (US, Europe, South America) | Full-Time | $150K-$250K + equity | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river?utm_source=Zp9nJyqvd4

I'm Alex, founder and CEO of River. I also wrote the first line of code and still ship PRs.

River is a client-first Bitcoin-only financial institution building the financial app people use every day to save in bitcoin and spend in dollars. We custody over 25,000 BTC, serve individuals and businesses across the U.S., and are profitable. We publish cryptographic proof of reserves monthly and our company financials annually.

Here's what our engineering team is working on:

  - Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API
  - Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure
  - Scaling our ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk
  - A ground-up React and React Native rewrite of our consumer app
  - Porting our Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir

We're hiring:

  - Staff Software Engineer (Elixir) | $200K-$250K
  - Senior Software Engineer (React, Full-stack) | $150K-$220K
  - Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer | $200K-$250K
Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river?utm_source=Zp9nJyqvd4

Replies

rjpruitt16yesterday at 6:09 PM

I’m curious if you are looking into gleam at all. I have written elixir/gleam interop otp library. Probably will help a lot for safety in finance. I could help turn certain components into for type safe gleam code

the-dimma-dangtoday at 12:08 AM

Hi, is there particular interest in a bilingual English and Brazilian Portuguese speaker? I noticed this is remote for the Americas and, well, I’m moving to Brazil this December and would love to help you all expand there!