Senior Backend Developer
Galaxy Digital is a financial services and investment management firm specializing in the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. Serving primarily institutional clients, the company offers a comprehensive suite of services including trading, asset management, investment banking, and data center infrastructure for AI and high-performance computing.
About Galaxy Digital
Galaxy Digital is a diversified financial services and investment management firm focused on the digital asset, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology sectors. The company's operations are structured across three primary business lines: Global Markets, Asset Management & Infrastructure, and Data Centers. The Global Markets division provides institutional access to a full suite of digital asset products and services, including OTC trading, derivatives, and investment banking. The Asset Management & Infrastructure arm offers a wide range of investment strategies such as ETFs, hedge funds, and venture capital, alongside essential blockchain services like staking, tokenization, and custody solutions. The Data Centers business focuses on bitcoin mining and is expanding into AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC). Galaxy serves a diverse clientele, from institutional investors and trading firms to Web3 founders and miners, and also provides extensive educational resources, research, and market insights through its Digital Assets Academy and various podcasts.
Skills
About the Role
You will design and build backend systems powering blockchain infrastructure and staking products across Galaxy including Ethereum based systems. You will own system design end to end from architecture through to observability. You will work across the Ethereum stack, integrating with both execution layer and consensus layer clients. You will contribute to Liquid Collective alongside other staking and blockchain infrastructure projects across Galaxy. You will set engineering standards for API design testing strategies for distributed systems reliability fault tolerance and security and key management practices. You will operate in a spec first development environment translate product and protocol requirements into clear technical specs before building. You will leverage AI assisted development workflows and work with emerging paradigms like MCP and agent based tooling. You will collaborate cross functionally with protocol product and infrastructure teams. You will mentor engineers through code review design feedback and raising the overall quality of what the team ships. You will contribute to how the team evolves its practices not just executing within the current system but improving it. You will embrace and champion the thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes. You will leverage AI tools to improve productivity decision making and output quality in your day to day work.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong experience building backend systems in Golang
- Deep understanding of distributed systems
- Experience working with blockchain systems preferably Ethereum including familiarity with execution vs consensus layers node operation and data flow
- Experience with cloud native infrastructure AWS Kubernetes Helm GitOps
- Strong testing practices for complex and stateful systems
- Experience working in remote asynchronous teams
- High agency low ego own your work end to end and hold yourself accountable for quality
- Hands on experience with Ethereum nodes execution and/or consensus clients or validator and staking infrastructure
- Understanding of proof of stake mechanisms
- Experience building blockchain indexers data pipelines dApps or smart contracts Solidity
- Familiarity with AI assisted development workflows spec driven development code generation tools MCP or agent based paradigms
- Contributions to open source projects
- Experience with Rust
Responsibilities
- Design and build APIs services Ethereum data pipelines indexers staking and validator infrastructure integrations and monitoring and operational tooling
- Own system design end to end architecture implementation testing deployment and observability
- Work across the Ethereum stack integrating with execution layer and consensus layer clients
- Contribute to Liquid Collective alongside other staking and blockchain infrastructure projects across Galaxy
- Define and uphold engineering standards for API design testing strategies reliability fault tolerance security and key management practices
- Operate in a spec first development environment translate product and protocol requirements into clear technical specs before building
- Leverage AI assisted development workflows and explore MCP and agent based tooling
- Collaborate cross functionally with protocol product and infrastructure teams
- Mentor engineers through code review design feedback and raising the overall quality of what the team ships
- Contribute to how the team evolves its practices not just executing within the current system but improving it
- Embrace and champion thoughtful adoption of AI to improve team performance and business outcomes
- Leverage AI tools to improve productivity decision making and output quality in day to day work
Benefits
- Competitive base salary and discretionary bonus
- Hybrid Flexible Working Arrangements
- Flexible Time Off paid
- 3% 401(k) company contribution
- Company paid health and protective benefits for employees partners and other dependents
- Generous paid Parental Leave
- Competitive family planning benefits for US employees
- Opportunities to learn about the Crypto industry
- Smart entrepreneurial and fun colleagues
- Free daily snacks and weekly breakfasts lunches
- Employee Resource Groups
- Free coaching and counseling sessions through Headspace