Principal / Staff Backend Engineer
Kinetic helps users trade digital assets by aggregating liquidity across Solana decentralized exchanges for optimal pricing and execution.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Kinetic
Kinetic helps DeFi users trade digital assets efficiently by providing unified access to Solana's trading ecosystem. With it, users can discover tokens through market intelligence tools, execute swaps with optimal routing, and track portfolio performance. Kinetic combines trading functionality with discovery features to create a trading platform for Solana users.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
As a driven, product-focused senior-level backend software engineer on the founding team, you will build a well-tested, feature-rich crypto trading experience using Golang, Python, GCP, and MongoDB.
Requirements
- 5-10+ years of software engineering experience
- Working knowledge of modern cloud infrastructure and DevOps best practices, such as Heroku and GCP
- Comfortable with MongoDB for databasing
- High-agency and autodidactic with a founder mentality
- Crypto-native experience is a bonus
- Experience with TypeScript is a bonus
Responsibilities
- Build a well-tested, feature-rich crypto trading experience
- Develop with a modern backend technology stack using Golang, Python, GCP, and MongoDB
- Adhere to good code practices focused on readability, maintainability, and testing
- Take full ownership of meaningful projects
Benefits
- Generous equity
- Flexible location and hours
- Best-in-class health, dental, and vision insurance with full coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- $100 monthly gym stipend
Hiring Process
Email jobs@kinetic.xyz with the role title in the subject line, a brief introduction and background, GitHub and LinkedIn/resume links, and links to favorite projects.