Senior Backend Engineer

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Research, design, and build core services for a real-time RFQ orchestration engine, including pricing, quoting, routing, inventory management, and settlement across chains and venues.
• Design and develop exchange infrastructure, including matching engines, pricing rules, order APIs, and onchain settlement systems.
• Own backend systems throughout their full lifecycle, from architecture and development to deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and on-call operations.
• Develop rate-aware pricing and inventory controls for assets with dynamic market prices.
• Integrate new blockchain networks, trading venues, solver networks, and liquidity sources while improving the efficiency and scalability of future integrations.
• Build execution attribution and economic systems that support programmatic revenue sharing with integrators.
• Work directly with onchain infrastructure, including smart contracts, mint and redemption facilities, and compliance mechanisms.
• Contribute to technical strategy and architecture decisions within a small, high-impact engineering team.
• Raise engineering standards through code reviews, technical guidance, mentorship, and strong engineering practices.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience building and operating production backend systems, with demonstrated ownership of systems requiring high availability and reliability.
• Proven experience taking systems from 0-to-1 through production hardening and ongoing operation.
• Experience building systems where correctness and reliability have direct financial implications, such as exchange infrastructure, trading, settlement, or comparable financial systems.
• Strong understanding of traditional financial market structure, including central limit order books, batch auctions, RFQs, and related economic, incentive, and technical considerations.
• Strong backend systems design and development skills, with sound judgment around reliability, performance, latency, and scalability.
• Ability to reason about inventory risk, execution quality, pricing decisions, and their commercial implications.
• Experience at a market maker, exchange, trading firm, or similar financial infrastructure environment is a plus.
• Experience with multi-chain infrastructure, particularly inventory or treasury management across blockchain networks, is preferred.
• Familiarity with tokenized assets, stablecoins, or real-world assets is advantageous.
• Understanding of onchain market structures such as AMMs, solver networks, DEX aggregators, and bridges is a plus.
• Ability to read Solidity and understand smart contract interactions, even without direct smart contract development experience.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical and pricing decisions to both engineering and commercial stakeholders.

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation.
• Meaningful equity participation.
• Opportunity to work on financial infrastructure supporting institutional customers and real transaction volume.
• High ownership within a small engineering team, with engineers responsible for complete systems rather than isolated components.
• Opportunity to ship production systems quickly and see the direct impact of technical decisions.
• Significant influence over technical direction, architecture, and the evolution of the product.
• Exposure to complex challenges across tokenized assets, stablecoins, onchain credit, liquidity orchestration, and financial infrastructure.
• In-person or remote work options, with New York City preferred.
• Opportunity to collaborate closely with experienced engineers on technically demanding financial systems.