Backend Developer
An independent Cayman foundation that stewards community governance and assets related to Forta, an onchain security and risk-management ecosystem.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
Funding history
Projects
About Forta Foundation
Forta Foundation is a Cayman foundation whose mission is to steward the evolution of the Forta Network by facilitating collective action among its decentralized community. Forta's current ecosystem provides onchain risk management through Forta Risk, real-time dependency and exposure monitoring, and Forta Firewall, which screens transactions for security and compliance risks before execution. The Foundation's legal terms identify it as holding and facilitating governance over Forta-related intellectual property, repositories, databases, infrastructure, and FORT tokens.
Skills
About the Role
Design, implement, and ship backend services and integrations supporting sequencers and chain interactions. Own projects from design through rollout, improve performance and reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, apply security practices, mentor peers, and contribute to engineering standards.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software development experience.
- Knowledge of Ethereum and the EVM.
- Experience with Go and Solidity.
- Experience with AWS services such as CloudWatch, DynamoDB, and ECS.
- Experience with Docker and Terraform.
- Familiarity with OP Stack and Arbitrum preferred.
- Desire to work with Rust.
- Prior remote-work experience with strong organizational, time-management, and collaboration skills.
- Advanced English communication skills.
- Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead critical projects end-to-end including design documents, implementation, reviews, rollouts, and post-mortems.
- Build sequencer-adjacent services such as screening APIs, proxies, attestations, and chain integrations.
- Profile systems and optimize performance using load testing, flamegraphs, cache and queue tuning, and data-path optimization.
- Apply threat modeling, key and secret management, IAM, least-privilege controls, and audit-readiness practices.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, blameless retrospectives, and runbook maintenance.
- Mentor teammates on designs, code reviews, testing standards, and engineering best practices.
- Track EVM, OP Stack, and Arbitrum changes and surface actionable ecosystem insights.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Paid leave for new parents
- Team events and company retreats
Hiring Process
Complete the online application, including personal and professional information, experience level, current location, salary expectation, availability date, resume/CV, and cover letter. Answer position-specific questions about project leadership, Go or Solidity work, sequencers or rollups, performance improvements, and system security, then submit the application.
