Responsibilities
- Be an individual contributor on projects as well as lead technical projects of moderate to high complexity
- Offer valuable insights as a peer when reviewing designs and performing code reviews
- Create high quality, secure, clean code
- Improve the way we build and deliver software
- Consistently ship
- Coach and mentor other engineers and generally up-level the team
- Empathize with our customers and users
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience solving complex distributed computing problems.
- Fluent in TypeScript/JavaScript - you can confidently write and debug APIs in Node/Express without relying on type-casting hacks or constant lookup.
- Experienced with designing and building systems that include:
- Relational or Key-Value datastores
- Distributed, event-driven architectures (Kafka, queues, streams)
- Cloud-based deployment (preferably AWS)
- External-facing REST/HTTP APIs
- Monitoring dashboards (preferably Grafana)
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills - you can isolate issues, reason through errors, and explain your approach clearly.
- Up to date on emerging trends in modern backend technology solutions (databases, queues, caching, etc.).
- Passionate about DeFi and how it can improve peopleβs lives. Youβve used DeFi apps yourself and care about building better ones.
- Two annual in-person team meet-ups around the globe
- Preferred Experience working with search engines (ElasticSearch, OpenSearch).
- Solid understanding of blockchains (especially EVM chains). You know fundamentals like chain IDs (e.g., Ethereum mainnet = 1, Polygon = 137) and how replay protection works.
- Experience working with JSON-RPC APIs to interact with blockchain nodes for tasks like querying data, sending transactions, or monitoring events.
- Experience with Web3 libraries (e.g., ethers.js, viem, Web3.js) to build/test blockchain integrations.
