Backend Engineer - Protocol Platform
Compound Finance operates decentralized markets for earning yield, accessing liquidity, and borrowing against digital assets. Its services support deposits, lending, and overcollateralized borrowing through the Compound protocol.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
About Compound Foundation
Compound Finance provides secure, audited markets where users can deposit digital assets to earn market-driven yield or borrow against excess collateral. The platform offers liquidity across assets including ETH, WBTC, and stablecoins, with instant withdrawals or borrowing subject to available liquidity. Compound also supports protocol security, governance, ecosystem development, risk and capital management, engineering, partnerships, and community engagement.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and operate backend services, APIs, data systems, and integrations powering Compound’s application layer and operational infrastructure. Work across blockchain and traditional software systems to process on-chain data, support wallets and financial partners, and deliver secure, reliable infrastructure for products and users.
Requirements
- 4+ years of backend software engineering experience
- Go, Python, TypeScript, or Rust
- Distributed systems
- API design
- Asynchronous processing
- Event-driven architecture
- Databases
- Caching
- Queues
- Data consistency
- Service reliability
- Cloud production systems
- Containerized services
- Networking
- Observability
- Deployment pipelines
- Authentication
- Authorization
- Secrets management
- Access controls
- Audit logging
- Blockchain data pipelines
- EVM transaction flows
- RPC providers
- Event logs
- Contract interfaces
- Solidity
- External integrations
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable backend services and APIs
- Index, process, reconcile, and serve on-chain data
- Handle blockchain-specific failures and data inconsistencies
- Maintain contract interfaces, transaction workflows, event schemas, and release procedures
- Develop services and data models for positions, portfolios, transactions, analytics, risk monitoring, notifications, and reporting
- Own integrations with wallets, custodians, RPC providers, indexers, data platforms, and access providers
- Build secure service-to-service architecture and access controls
- Improve reliability through observability, monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational tooling
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical planning
- Support protocol upgrades through migrations, backfills, reconciliation, monitoring, and rollout plans
