Trellis hiring founding backend engineer
Trellis, a VC‑backed fintech payments startup that prefers NYC hires, is recruiting a founding backend engineer to build payment infrastructure from scratch with a $200K base plus equity—an explicit opportunity for enterprise engineers to jump into an early startup role. The opening signals active early‑stage hiring in NYC fintech despite broader market caution. (x.com)
A New York fintech is trying to hire its first full-time backend engineer with a $200,000 base salary and equity, and the job is not for polishing an old codebase. The posting says this person would help deliver the first product in 3 to 6 months and design ledgers, reconciliation, and stablecoin payout systems from scratch. (dailyremote.com) The company behind the role is Trellis, a venture-backed startup that says it builds digital insurance and financial products with partners including personal finance apps, financial institutions, and digital banks. Trellis says it is backed by QED, General Catalyst, Nyca, and Amex Ventures. (trellisconnect.com) Trellis is not a brand-new idea on a napkin. In June 2021, the company announced a $10 million Series A funding round led by QED Investors, and in May 2022 it said an investment from Amex Ventures brought total funding to $17 million. (businesswire.com) (trellisconnect.com) What makes this opening unusual is the mix of stage and pay. Founding engineer jobs usually trade cash for upside, but this one is listed at $200,000 plus equity while still asking for the kind of work normally done by a first technical hire who sets architecture, reviews contractors, and recruits later engineers. (dailyremote.com) The job description reads like a map of the plumbing behind moving money. A ledger is the master record of who owes what, reconciliation is the process of checking that your internal records match bank and payment records, and auditability means every change can be traced later like a receipt trail that never disappears. (dailyremote.com) The posting also says New York City is preferred even though the role can be remote across the United States and Latin America. That detail matters because it suggests the founder wants the center of gravity near New York, where payments, banking, and compliance talent are dense and where many fintech sales and partnership teams already sit. (dailyremote.com) Trellis’s own careers page now presents a different company than the all-remote startup it described in 2021. The site says employees should expect ownership, speed, and craft, and current openings show the company is still hiring across engineering as it pushes insurance products through its Trellis and Savvy brands. (trellisconnect.com) (jobs.ashbyhq.com) There is also a timing signal here. In a market where many startups have spent the last two years cutting burn and delaying senior hires, a role that combines founding-level scope, payments infrastructure, and a straight $200,000 base says some early-stage fintech companies still think the bottleneck is not capital but shipping. (dailyremote.com) (startupjobs.nyc) For engineers sitting in a bank, card network, or large software company, the pitch is easy to read. Trellis is offering enterprise-grade backend work like ledgers and distributed systems, but with founding-level ownership and equity instead of one more box on an org chart. (dailyremote.com)
