We're building Farlo — a trading-first fintech for emerging markets, starting in Africa. Think the inverse of Revolut: we start with trading and a stablecoin dollar-savings spine where dollar access is the real pain, then grow into investing and payments off a funded, loyal base.
This is a founding engineering role. You'll own the core of the platform:
• The unified wallet/ledger service — the spine that holds balances and routes value across trading, investing, payments and the stablecoin account, with strict transactional integrity. This is our core IP.
• Provider adapters behind clean internal interfaces — the MT5/liquidity-provider trading stack, a US broker-dealer for equities, payments/EMI, and stablecoin custody/ramp — so any provider can be swapped without rebuilding the core.
• Trade and portfolio sync — event queues for orders, fills, margin and positions, kept reconciled with every provider.
• Shared KYC/AML, identity and risk as platform services.
You set the architecture, make the build/buy/partner calls, and (after our raise) hire and lead the team. Our principle: own the orchestration layer, the ledger, the data and the experience; rent the regulated machinery.
We're pre-seed (closing now), incubated by the hedge fund our founder co-runs. The architecture is done, a working wallet/ledger prototype is built, and we're targeting a live trading launch in mid-2026. You'd join as the technical anchor, with founding equity on top of cash.
Ideal background: you've built and scaled money-movement or trading systems at a fintech, brokerage or payments platform (e.g. Trading 212, Revolut, Exness, Wise). Our stack is TypeScript/Node + PostgreSQL, but we care more about depth in financial systems than language — strong Java/Kotlin/Go engineers happy to work in TypeScript are very welcome.
