Backend Engineer - Crypto Start-Up

Remote

Full-time

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$ 146 - 175 K/year

experience
2 - 5 yrs

experience
2 - 5 yrs

Posted on: 3 days ago

Skills

python
flask
graphql
postgresql
Bigtable
python RQ
redis
gcp
terraform
docker
PubSub
datadog
Defi
Crypto

About Our Client :

Our client makes cryptocurrency portfolio tracking and tax compliance simple. They enables consumers and businesses to seamlessly track their cryptocurrency portfolio, investment performance, taxes, and more. We are a globally distributed team on a mission to enable everyone in the world to use crypto with peace of mind. about our mission, culture, and hiring process.

What we're looking for?

We need someone with 2-5 years of professional (non-internship) experience as a backend engineer, preferably in the data engineering or crypto/finance domain. You should be comfortable designing, scaling, and maintaining production systems, ideally within high-growth or early-stage environments, and have a track record of driving business impact. Bonus points if you have strong fundamentals with a cloud platform like GCP or AWS.

What you'll do:

  • Build new features, products, integrations, and back-end services

  • Design scalable systems to support millions of users

  • Own and deliver top-level product and engineering objectives

  • Collaborate with team members across the company

  • Build new blockchain and exchange integrations and enrich blockchain data with DeFi categorization as well as exchange data with exchange-specific nuances

  • Influence the product roadmap through your technical and domain expertise

Work experience :

  • Knowledge or Expertise in Crypto

  • Experience in high-​growth or early-​stage environments.​

  • Experience designing,​ scaling,​ and maintaining production systems.​

  • Experience building blockchain and exchange integrations.​

  • Experience enriching blockchain data with DeFi categorization.​

  • Experience with exchange data with exchange-​specific nuances.​

Education :

Strong CS fundamentals (algorithms,​ data structures,​ system design,​ distributed systems) often associated with a CS degree


Hard skills :

  • Deep knowledge of backend technologies (databases,​ orchestrators,​ messaging systems,​ data pipelines).​

  • Strong fundamentals with GCP or AWS cloud platform.​

  • Proficiency in Python.​

  • Experience with Flask,​ GraphQL,​ Postgres,​ BigTable,​ Redis,​ Python RQ,​ Temporal.​

  • Experience with Terraform,​ Docker,​ Pub/Sub,​ Datadog,​ PagerDuty.​

Miscellaneous :
Able to overlap with core hours of 9 AM to 12 PM PT / 12 -​ 3 PM EST.​