AETHER / Careers
§ COMPANY — CAREERS

Build the rail. Not another wrapper.

Foundational financial infrastructure that the next decade of regulated finance will run on. Senior people, small teams, real engineering autonomy.

What it is like here

Open roles

ENGINEERING

Staff engineer — Settlement core

Atomic multi-leg settlement engine in Rust. Distributed consensus, high-assurance. EU / UK / SG / US.

ENGINEERING

Senior engineer — Identity

ZK-credential issuance and verification. Cryptography background preferred. Remote.

ENGINEERING

Senior engineer — Payments

ISO 20022, multi-currency routing, FX execution. Background in real-time payment systems. Remote.

ENGINEERING

SRE — Edge & networking

Global anycast edge, sub-50ms p99 routing, multi-region failover. Remote.

OPERATIONS

Head of Compliance Engineering

Translate live regulation into rule sets that ship and pass audit. EU or UK preferred.

OPERATIONS

Partnerships — Banks & PSPs

Lead institutional partnerships. Background inside Tier-1 banking. London, Singapore or New York.

How hiring works

Step 1
Application. A short conversation about the role and what you have shipped.
Step 2
Technical or domain deep-dive. We work through a real problem from the codebase or runbook.
Step 3
Paid trial project. Two weeks, scoped tightly. You can keep your day job; we will work around your schedule.
Step 4
Decision and offer within a week of the trial.

If you do not see a fit for what you do, write to us anyway. The roles we post are the roles we know we need. The roles we hire for are usually broader.

Send your work, not your CV

A project you are proud of and a paragraph on why it mattered. We read everything.