Senior Blockchain Engineer - Rust/Solana
Summary
Senior engineer at a fast-growing fintech startup building scalable back-end systems (Go/Node.js) and integrating Solana-based tokenized assets, with AI-assisted development and AWS infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Understand and own the business domain and challenges we’re faced with
- Create optimal domain driven architecture that will balance robustness and maintainability with the simplicity a start-up needs when accelerating
- Build resilient microservices and APIs, fast.
- Create or contribute to our automated deployment pipeline and observability setup
- Develop, test and deploy secure and maintainable code, heavily assisted by AI
- Monitor production backend systems to ensure stability and performance
- Closely work with and inspire your peers (including front-end and blockchain engineers), product team and business team
Requirements
- 4+ years of building high-concurrency systems and APIs with GoLang (preferred) or NodeJS, using microservices and event-driven architecture.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services such as Lambda, Congnito, Redis, SQS etc
- Proficiency with relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, DynamoDB)
- Experience writing unit tests, load tests and other automated tests
- Great at debugging production issues by assumption/validation, data extraction and analysis
- Previous experience with Docker, K8s, GitHub Actions, Terraform
- Ownership, speed, curiosity, result-driven, entrepreneurial mindset
Nice to Have
- Experience integrating with or developing Solana programs (Helius, Anchor, SPL token, Token 2022, Metaplex Core)
- Previous extensive integration of AI in the development flow
- Experience with DeFi
- Worked in the past with AWS Amplify or AWS CDK
- Some front-end experience (eg: React, Redux)
Originally posted on Himalayas