Senior Backend Engineer
Summary
Build and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for Web2/Web3 products, integrating blockchain infrastructure and optimizing distributed systems for performance and reliability.
You will own backend systems across StartaleApp and other products, designing APIs and services, building scalable data pipelines, managing databases, integrating blockchain infrastructure, and operating reliable production systems. You will work across Web2 and Web3 infrastructure and solve complex scalability, performance, and reliability challenges.
Responsibilities
- Own backend architecture and implementation across multiple products
- Design and maintain scalable production APIs and backend services
- Build and operate high-performance distributed systems
- Build data pipelines, background workers, asynchronous processing systems, and event-driven architectures
- Build blockchain integrations and indexing systems
- Design database schemas and optimize queries
- Diagnose production issues and performance bottlenecks
- Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, deployment pipelines, and system reliability
Requirements
- Backend engineering
- TypeScript
- NestJS
- Fastify
- Express
- API design
- Service-oriented architecture
- Distributed systems
- PostgreSQL
- Database management
- Data pipelines
- Observability
- Blockchain integration
- Blockchain indexing
- Wallet architecture
- DeFi protocols
- Docker
- CI/CD
Benefits
- Ownership opportunities