Staff Backend Engineer Aave App Vaults

You will build and operate backend infrastructure supporting onboarding, funding, savings, vaults, withdrawals, portfolio data, and customer communications. You will develop reliable vault-management, monitoring, rebalancing, transaction-orchestration, and blockchain-indexing services. You will integrate external infrastructure, improve operational practices, lead technical reviews, and collaborate with product and engineering specialists to deliver secure, reliable consumer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services across onboarding, funding, savings, vaults, withdrawals, portfolio data, and customer communications
• Build vault management, monitoring, and rebalancing systems, including partner vault integrations
• Turn reviewed allocation models into reliable production services with Quant Engineers
• Build transaction-orchestration and high-throughput indexing services for onchain activity
• Integrate with smart contracts, RPC providers, account infrastructure, payment partners, and external services
• Lead technical reviews and improve testing, observability, alerting, incident response, and deployment practices
• Collaborate with mobile, web, product, design, protocol, smart contract, quant, security, data, and operations teams
• Raise engineering standards through hands-on delivery, architecture, documentation, and reviews

Requirements

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience owning complex production systems
• Strong backend programming skills
• Production experience with Rust, or strong systems experience in Go, C++, Zig, or Java
• Experience building distributed, event-driven, or data-intensive systems with reliability and performance requirements
• Knowledge of API and GraphQL design, relational databases, caching, queues, and observability
• Judgment around threat modelling, sensitive data, permissions, and operational risks for systems handling financial value