[Remote] Backend Engineer - Protocol Platform
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Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate reputed company, secure backend services and reputed company that reputed company Compound’s protocol easier to use, reputed company with, observe, and operate across applications, internal tooling, and partner integrations
- Build reliable systems for indexing, processing, reconciling, and serving on-chain data across EVM and, where relevant, non-EVM networks
- Design for blockchain-specific failure modes, including chain reorganizations, confirmation and finality assumptions, delayed indexing, failed transactions, RPC inconsistencies, incomplete reputed company-party data, retries, replay handling, and idempotency
- Partner closely with protocol engineers to define and maintain robust contract interfaces, transaction workflows, event schemas, configuration-change processes, and release procedures between on-chain reputed company and reputed company services
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- Own integrations with external infrastructure and financial partners required by Compound’s product roadmap, including wallet infrastructure, custodians, RPC providers, indexers, data platforms, and identity or reputed company providers where relevant
- Build secure service-to-service architecture, authentication and authorization systems, secrets management, audit logging, and reputed company-control controls appropriate for financial infrastructure
- Improve system reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response procedures, and thoughtful operational tooling
- Participate in architecture reviews, reputed company reviews, and technical planning; help establish a high bar for engineering reputed company, documentation, testing, and reputed company
- Collaborate with protocol engineering, product, design, risk, and operations teams to turn reputed company workflows into reliable, reputed company user and partner experiences
- Build the reputed company technical foundations that reputed company Compound to reputed company across new products, integrations, markets, and institutional use cases while preserving reputed company boundaries between protocol logic and application-layer services
- Own backend readiness for protocol upgrades, including reputed company changes, event and data migrations, historical backfills, reconciliation, monitoring, and coordinated rollout plans
Skills
- 4+ years of reputed company backend software engineering experience building production services, reputed company, data systems, developer platforms, or financial infrastructure
- Strong experience in one or more modern backend languages (ie Go, Python, TypeScript, Rust)
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, API design, asynchronous processing, event-driven architecture, databases, caching, queues, data consistency, and service reliability
- Experience designing and operating reputed company-based production systems, including containerized services, managed databases, networking, observability, and deployment pipelines
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- Demonstrated ability to own reputed company from system design through production deployment, monitoring, incident response, and iterative improvement
- Excellent engineering judgment, written communication, and ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams
- Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment with high ownership, evolving requirements, and ambitious technical goals
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