LiquidTrust builds practical, scalable payment solutions that empower small businesses to compete in global markets with greater security and confidence. In 2025, the company introduced Micro Escrow Pay, the first instant escrow solution designed specifically for SMBs, providing the same payment protections that were once only available to large corporations.
We are seeking an entrepreneurial Senior Software Engineer to join as a key early member of our team. As our second U.S.-based engineering hire, reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll play a critical role in designing and building the core of our secure micro-escrow payments platform—transforming how SMBs send and receive payments.
If you are are looking for the opportunity to make a large impact across a variety of areas, are , highly technical and seeking a once in a generation opportunity to change a trillion dollar industry (that’s how big global payments is!), this opportunity is for you.
the old language that's a bit of a counter example to this is php.
folks came out with a package manager in composer that was just so much better that everyone jumped to it. and then the IDE's finally got modern features, and then the runtime got much faster in php 7.
It's just by the time all this happened, "PHP sucks" had become"common knowledge" and it really fell off the popularity ladder. but not for lack of tooling.
C++ has also made a lot of strides in developer productivity, it just still has a bad rep.
And you actually can have xdebug installed without performance degradation if it is not automatically enabled on every request (think that was true for xdebug 2 as well). What you do is to send a special request payload to enable it when needed, can be done with a browser extension.
There is also phpdbg, shipped with php, it does not suffer from the same performance penalties that xdebug prior to version 3 had (not sure how it compares to xdebug 3). However it is a command line debugger only, it does not support remote debugging or IDE integration.
if backwards compatibility is so hard, why not break it? replace git with git2 in all places (command line, URLs, protocol, etc) and make a git1to2 utility, and you are golden
Unfortunately, maybe only if you can get to the journalism itself through shoe ads first (which is what takes 1/3 of my screen when I open an article on climate change).
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LiquidTrust builds practical, scalable payment solutions that empower small businesses to compete in global markets with greater security and confidence. In 2025, the company introduced Micro Escrow Pay, the first instant escrow solution designed specifically for SMBs, providing the same payment protections that were once only available to large corporations.
We are seeking an entrepreneurial Senior Software Engineer to join as a key early member of our team. As our second U.S.-based engineering hire, reporting directly to the CTO, you’ll play a critical role in designing and building the core of our secure micro-escrow payments platform—transforming how SMBs send and receive payments.
If you are are looking for the opportunity to make a large impact across a variety of areas, are , highly technical and seeking a once in a generation opportunity to change a trillion dollar industry (that’s how big global payments is!), this opportunity is for you.
https://www.liquidtrust.io/careers/senior-software-engineer-...
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