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Posted on 6/28/2024

Nium

Nium

1,001-5,000 employees

Global fintech for real-time payment solutions

Compensation Overview

$112k - $154kAnnually

Junior

San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid position requiring 3 days per week in the office.

Category
Backend Engineering
Software Engineering
Required Skills
Python
Java
C#
Go
C/C++
Requirements
  • 1-2 years of backend engineering experience, recommended not required.
  • Experience building and operating highly available backend distributed systems
  • Proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, C++, C#, Golang
  • Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
  • Thrive in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
  • Passion for turning business and product ideas into engineering solutions
Responsibilities
  • Deliver and own large features end-to-end
  • Collaborate with our product team to deliver high impact for our customers
  • Proactively identify ways to monitor the quality, reliability, and security of our systems
  • Abide by engineering best practices

Nium provides a platform for real-time payments, enabling businesses to send and receive funds instantly and manage foreign exchange transactions. Its services target banks, fintech companies, and money service businesses, offering competitive rates and solutions for corporate purchasing and travel payments. Nium differentiates itself by focusing on real-time global money movement and allowing easy integration through its proprietary API. The company's goal is to facilitate efficient financial transactions for businesses across borders.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series E

Total Funding

$305.4M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2016

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Nium's partnership with G2 Travel enhances global hotel payments efficiency.
  • Expansion into Australia strengthens Nium's global instant payment network.
  • Collaboration with Diners Club increases payment flexibility for travelers.

What critics are saying

  • Increased competition from new entrants in real-time payments.
  • Potential regulatory challenges in African market expansion.
  • Over-reliance on partnerships could lead to vulnerabilities.

What makes Nium unique

  • Nium offers real-time payments and foreign exchange management globally.
  • Nium's proprietary API enables seamless integration with business systems.
  • Nium provides virtual card solutions for travel and corporate payments.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Hybrid Work Options

Paid Vacation

Performance Bonus

Stock Options

Professional Development Budget

Mental Health Support

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

2%
Financial IT
Mar 3rd, 2025
Nium Partners With G2 Travel to Enhance Global Hotel Payments

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, has today announced a strategic partnership with G2 Travel.

FF News
Mar 3rd, 2025
Nium Partners With G2 Travel To Enhance Global Hotel Payments

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, has today announced a strategic partnership with G2 Travel.The wholesale tour operator will use Nium’s virtual card payment solution to pay hotel partners globally. The partnership adds more local currencies to G2 Travel’s offering and makes supplier payments faster, more efficient, and more secure.The hospitality industry has long faced challenges with payment failures and fraud risks. Nium’s virtual card solution addresses these issues by offering G2 hotel partners faster settlements, automated reconciliation, and broader acceptance — enhancing both security and payments efficiency.Through this partnership, G2 Travel will leverage Nium’s ability to issue Visa and Mastercard-accepted virtual cards globally, with access to over 20 local currencies. The collaboration already supports multiple live currencies, with more to follow.G2 Travel will use Nium-issued virtual cards to pay a vast network of directly-contracted hotels Nium’s real-time funding and issuing capabilities help to streamline bulk reservations, improving hotels’ cash flow and unlocking working capital.“We chose Nium for their unmatched global reach and currency coverage, making them the ideal partner for powering worldwide hotel payments. With Nium, we have the scale we need to tap into high-growth markets and meet rising demand for quicker, more secure, and reliable payments across the travel ecosystem, now and in the future,” said David Littlefair, Founder at G2 Travel.“By combining our travel payments expertise with G2’s global distribution network, we’re helping hotels get paid faster, reduce fraud, and improve cash flow — so they can focus on creating exceptional guest experiences. We’re excited to see this partnership grow as we expand into new markets and solutions, delivering the benefits of virtual cards to more travel intermediaries and accommodation providers around the world,” said Max Lehmann, SVP Head of Enterprise & Travel, Europe at Nium.Looking ahead, G2 Travel plans to expand its global payment capabilities with Nium, adding more virtual card currencies and further enhancing its group business offerings

Financial IT
Feb 25th, 2025
Nium Expands Real-Time Payouts Into Australia, Strengthening Global Instant Payment Network

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the expansion of its real-time payout capabilities into Australia.

PYMNTS
Jan 28th, 2025
What Treasury Teams Can Learn From Central Banks’ Tokenization Projects

For decades, wholesale cross-border payments have meant snail-paced bank wires, money squirreled away across sprawling correspondent banking networks, and the accumulation of enough fees that Scrooge McDuck could swim in them. This has long made cross-border payments a headache for corporate treasurers and finance teams, especially those overseeing multinational operations. The correspondent banking backbone of cross-border payments relies on a sequence of bank balance sheet updates, each requiring manual compliance checks for things like anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) regulations. The result is a process plagued by duplication, delays and costs. It’s also one that the world’s central banks and financial institutions are working to solve, in many instances by experimenting with blockchain and tokenization

Send and Pay
Jan 12th, 2025
Nium and Diners Club Join Forces to Revolutionize Travel Payments with New Virtual Card Offering

Nium has recently entered into a partnership with Diners Club, a prominent name under Discover Global Network, to unveil an innovative card designed specifically for travelers.

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