River | Staff Engineers (Elixir) | NYC or REMOTE (US, Europe, South
River NYC or REMOTE (US, Europe, South
Why this grade
This listing scored 64/100, which is a C. It lost the most ground on pay transparency.
- Freshness 15 / 15 How recently it was posted. Older postings are likelier to be filled or abandoned.
- Remote clarity 15 / 15 Whether "remote" means anywhere, or is quietly restricted to one country.
- Description depth 14 / 20 How much the posting actually says about the work, measured in characters of real text.
- Pay transparency 12 / 25 A published salary range, worth more than any other single factor because it is what a candidate cannot find out without applying.
- Corroboration 5 / 10 Whether more than one source carries this listing.
- Role specificity 3 / 10 Whether the listing is tagged well enough to tell what the role actually is.
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$130k – $188k
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America)| Full-Time | $200K-$250K + equity | https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river?utm_source=Zp9nJyqvd4
I'm Alex, founder and CEO of River. I also wrote the first line of code and still ship PRs.
River is a client-first Bitcoin-only financial institution building the financial app people use every day to save in bitcoin and spend in dollars. We custody over 33,000 BTC, serve individuals and businesses across the U.S., and are profitable. We publish cryptographic proof of reserves monthly and our company financials annually.
Here's what our engineering team is working on:
- Real-time Bitcoin and USD payments, trading, and settlement on an Elixir monolith with a unified GraphQL API
- Next-generation Bitcoin custody with quorum signing, key ceremonies, and geo-redundant infrastructure
- Scaling our ML/AI systems (Python, PyTorch, XGBoost, LLMs) to automate operations and tackle fraud/risk
- A ground-up React and React Native rewrite of our consumer app
- Porting our Lightning Network infrastructure from Go into Elixir
We're hiring:
- Staff Software Engineer (Elixir) | $200K-$250K
Apply at https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/river/610f652b-bdb9-4d82-9973-680babe16a07
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Where this listing came from
- 01 Oct 2026 Hacker News first sighting
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