Title of Role : Staff Backend Engineer
Location : United States or Canada (Remote)
Company Stage of Funding : Series A
Office Type : Remote (US & Canada)
Salary : $210,000 – $240,000 + Equity
Company Description
Our client is a high-growth technology company backed by top investors and building foundational infrastructure in the rapidly evolving digital assets ecosystem. Their mission is to make it seamless for millions of people to track, manage, and understand their financial portfolios. With over $50B in assets tracked across thousands of tokens and exchanges, the company is growing quickly and scaling its backend to meet massive demand.
This is an opportunity to join a team that’s shaping the future of financial technology—working on complex, large-scale systems that directly impact millions of users worldwide.
What You Will Do
- Architect and scale backend systems capable of supporting millions of users and high-volume transaction processing.
- Lead critical technical projects end-to-end, ensuring long-term scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional teams to align technical execution with business goals.
- Design and optimize distributed systems, APIs, and complex data processing pipelines.
- Mentor engineers, foster technical excellence, and drive best practices across the engineering org.
- Continuously improve system performance, observability, and maintainability.
Ideal Candidate Background
8+ years of backend engineering experience with strong computer science fundamentals.Proven success architecting, scaling, and maintaining backend systems for large user bases or high-throughput workloads.Track record of leading complex projects across multiple teams.Experience with distributed systems, large-scale data ingestion, and processing pipelines.Strong experience with technologies such as Python, Flask, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, Docker, GCP, or equivalent stacks.Excellent communication skills with the ability to balance technical depth and big-picture problem solving.Preferred
Prior experience in financial technology, digital assets, or other high-growth software sectors.Hands-on involvement with performance optimization, reliability engineering, and production incident response.Interest in the cryptocurrency, blockchain, or financial systems space.Compensation and Benefits
Base salary : $210,000 – $240,000, plus equity participation.Full remote flexibility across the US and Canada.Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.Generous PTO and company holidays.Opportunity to work in a profitable, fast-growing environment with world-class investors and partners.#J-18808-Ljbffr