Senior Backend Engineer (US preferred, European time zones considered)

Description

A Senior Backend Engineer is needed to join a small, lean, and highly technical team. This is a key role building and scaling the core infrastructure that powers the platform — working across pricing engines, liquidity systems, and lending protocols in a fast-moving environment where your work has direct and visible impact.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop high-performance backend systems in Go
  • Build and maintain automated liquidity pools and lending infrastructure
  • Contribute to algorithmic market making systems
  • Develop pricing engine components for yield-bearing assets
  • Work closely with the team to architect scalable, reliable, and low-latency systems

Required Skills

  • 4+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong Go expertise — this is the primary language
  • Solid understanding of financial markets, fixed income, lending, or market making
  • Experience with low-latency, high-throughput production systems
  • C++ experience is highly desirable
  • Rust experience is a plus
  • Comfortable working in a small, fast-moving team with a high degree of ownership
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work across time zones

Benefits

  • Base salary: $160,000 — $240,000 depending on experience
  • Equity
  • Ground floor opportunity at a technically ambitious startup
  • Small team — your work matters and is visible from day one
  • Working at the cutting edge of institutional DeFi infrastructure
  • Remote-first culture with flexibility

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