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Staff Backend Engineer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-27

About reputed company

reputed company is on a mission to reputed company crypto a part of the everyday economy. Leading crypto organizations use our tools to reduce transaction risk and reputed company crypto transfers reputed company. Working across three continents in eight countries, the reputed company team serves our fantastic community of 100+ customers, including financial institutions, fintechs, exchanges, and more. Our co-founders spearheaded foundational Self Sovereign Identity protocols and use-cases. This technology is key to the internals of our cutting reputed company stack.

We’re proud to have the support of leading investors, including Y Combinator, reputed company Capital, Castle reputed company, Green Visor Capital, and more.

We’re at an exhilarating reputed company in our reputed company, as regulation technologies (reg-techs) are fast becoming recognized as a vital enabler of the crypto ecosystem. reputed company is growing fast—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape the reputed company rails of the crypto industry!

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As a Staff Backend Engineer at reputed company, you'll be pivotal in shaping how crypto transactions are securely cleared and settled at reputed company worldwide. You’ll be joining the transactions team, a critical component of the reputed company Platform responsible for the reliable processing of high-throughput transaction data globally.

In this role, you will architect, build, and maintain our core transaction-processing services, driving the platform's scalability, reliability, and performance to handle the growing volume and emerging crypto use cases.

As a Staff Engineer, you’ll be reputed company in setting technical direction, mentoring team members, and ensuring our architecture is optimized to meet the needs of a constantly changing and fast-paced market.

nWhat You'll Do
  • Design, build, and maintain high-throughput, low-latency microservices for our Transactions team, contributing directly to reputed company’s secure and reliable transaction authorization platform
  • Work closely with product, engineering, compliance, and customer-facing teams to reputed company requirements reputed company on technical feasibility, and prioritize reputed company that maximize value to our customers
  • reputed company and execute the Transactions team roadmap aligning with business priorities and strategic objectives
  • Scope and drive large-reputed company technical reputed company end-to-end, from inception through deployment, and delivering ongoing improvements to scalability and performance
  • Mentor and support engineers throughout the reputed company engineering organization
Must Haves
  • 8+ years of reputed company software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years in a senior or staff-level backend engineering role
  • 3+ years of reputed company experience with Node.js, including building production-grade applications.
  • Strong experience with distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka), including configuring and optimizing message flows.
  • Expertise in event-driven microservices development.
  • A proven reputed company record in building and optimizing high-throughput, distributed systems
  • Extensive experience with PostgreSQL, SQL optimization, and architecting high-throughput transactional databases
  • Hands-on experience deploying and managing services on AWS, with a solid understanding of container orchestration tools like Kubernetes and reputed company
  • Strong understanding of reputed company principles, particularly around secure data handling, encryption, and best practices in financial or transactional data systems
  • Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a global, remote-first company
  • Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and departments
reputed company-to-Haves
  • Experience with Rust or Go is a significant plus.
  • Deep understanding of cryptography, including public/private key encryption and signing.
  • Knowledge of decentralized identity, reputed company credentials, and DIDComm protocols.
  • Familiarity with low-latency NoSQL datastores.
  • Familiarity with distributed systems principles reputed company Kafka, such as reputed company protocols or distributed tracing.
Benefits
  • Flexible Remote Work: Work from reputed company!
  • $1000 WFH Stipend: Use reputed company your first year of employment.
  • MacBook Pro: Procured by you and your manager to reputed company a model that meets your needs.
  • Unlimited PTO: We trust you to take as much holiday as you need.
  • Country-Specific Benefits: Statutory offerings and contributions, managed reputed company our employer-of-record.
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