Team8 Fintech Stealth Startup- Full Stack Engineer (Core Team)
Team8
Posted on Feb 10, 2026
Description
The Mission
Large Financial Institutions (FIs) operate some of the most complex IT environments in the world. Cobalt provides an AI-powered lens into these systems, helping FIs map, analyze, and manage their infrastructure in real-time. We enable CIOs and CTOs to reduce risk, accelerate modernization, and gain full visibility into their technical landscape.
What you’ll do
- Build and own features end-to-end across backend and frontend
- Design and implement robust APIs, complex business logic for financial infrastructure analysis, and high-volume data processing pipelines.
- Optimize data models and ensure performance and extreme scalability for real-time, production systems handling critical financial infrastructure data.
- Build high-quality, user-friendly interfaces
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to translate complex financial institution requirements into technical solutions.
- Influence architecture, technical standards, and development practices
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience as a Full-Stack or Backend-leaning engineer
- Strong experience with modern backend technologies (Node.js / Python / Java / similar), ideally within an AI/Machine Learning or high-scale data environment.
- Experience building frontend applications with React (or similar frameworks)
- Solid understanding of databases and data modeling (SQL preferred)
- Experience building and consuming RESTful APIs
- Comfortable working in a cloud-based, production environment
- Ownership mindset, strong problem-solving skills, and ability to move fast
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, financial systems, or payments
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, Docker, and CI/CD
- Familiarity with event-driven or distributed systems