Staff/Senior Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer at Ledgy, you’ll design and build elegant, scalable systems that power how companies manage their equity. You’ll collaborate with fellow engineers (based mainly in Zurich and London), product managers, and designers to develop industry-leading automation and experiences — while many in our space still rely on manual processes.

Location: We hire remotely across the UK, Spain, Germany, Poland, and Romania. For candidates based in London, we use a hybrid model with 2 days in the office per week.

Teams we’re hiring for:

• Core Equity — Owns the foundational logic that powers Ledgy’s equity engine. Every equity-related event — such as issuing shares, creating new pools, or adjusting ownership — generates transactions. This team defines and maintains the transaction logic, data model, and core domain behaviour that ensure Ledgy’s platform remains accurate, scalable, and compliant. They also enable employees to sell their shares seamlessly once vested.
• Reporting — Transforms Ledgy’s core equity data into financial, operational, and compliance reports. The team manages large, complex datasets and ensures reporting is accurate, performant, and reliable across jurisdictions and company structures. Their work powers the insights companies and auditors rely on for decision-making and transparency.
• AI Systems — Develops Ledgy’s AI foundations and product experiences, from AI agents and AI-assisted workflows to the platform capabilities that help other teams embed AI safely in their domains. The team works in a new and evolving product area, balancing rapid iteration with reliable execution, evaluation tooling, and responsible automation.
• Tax — Ensures taxes are correctly reflected throughout equity operations, especially moments such as exercising, selling, mobility, and other taxable events. As a future team, Tax will build end-to-end product capabilities across the stack, helping customers manage complex tax and compliance requirements accurately across jurisdictions.

You'll Thrive in This Role If You

• You have 7+ years of experience working as a Software Engineer
• You are excited about the impact of equity on entrepreneurship and its real-world impact for companies
• You enjoy tackling complex financial data transformations and compliance requirements
• You enjoy writing clean, maintainable code with agents, both in the back end and front end
• You thrive in collaborative environments
• You take pride in creating robust, tested solutions for critical business operations

Our Tech Stack:*

We have a modern, cohesive stack that lets us move fast while maintaining quality:

• Language: TypeScript
• Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, tRPC
• Backend: tRPC, Node.js, MongoDB, Temporal
• Infrastructure: GCP, Terraform Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions

*We don’t expect proficiency in this specific stack

What Your Journey Could Look Like

First 30 days:

• Be paired with an onboarding buddy who will introduce you to the world of equity management
• Get to know our engineering team, product managers, and designers
• Understand how your team’s surface area connects to the broader Ledgy platform
• Start contributing to the codebase with the guidance of experienced team members

First 3 months:

• Ship independently on impactful product features and improvements
• Participate in architecture discussions around scaling workflows, data models, and integrations
• Work alongside other engineers to implement robust, reliable data flows
• Develop a deep understanding of how companies manage and automate equity
• Participate in code reviews and help maintain our engineering standards

First 6–12 months:

• Take ownership of key features and improvements within your team’s domain
• Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Ledgy’s equity platform
• Collaborate with Product and Design to deliver polished, user-centric experiences
• Mentor other engineers and share expertise in automation, data modelling, and scalability

The interview process:

• Getting to know you (45 min): Meet with someone from our people team to talk about your experience and to ask questions about the role
• Live Coding (60 min): An equity domain problem to solve collaboratively using your preferred language and IDE. We want to see how you think, so this step does not allow AI. But you can freely look up syntax questions if you need to.
• System Design (60 min): A system design session where you will design an architecture for a problem from the Ledgy domain using a visual tool of your choice
• Case Study (60 min): Collaborate with a product manager and engineer to explore a problem related to Ledgy’s domain. Focus is on understanding requirements and evaluating architectural trade-offs.
• Culture Interview: A chance to meet one of our founders and your hiring manager for a 30-minute chat about Ledgy’s mission and values
• Offer 🎉

Being part of Ledgy means:

• Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country.
• We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget.
• This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. All salaries are aligned with competitively benchmarked ranges based on work location and levelling.
• For candidates based in London or Zurich we use a hybrid work model of 2 days in the office per week.