Senior Backend Engineer
Axiom helps DeFi traders execute transactions by providing a comprehensive non-custodial trading platform.
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About Axiom
Axiom helps DeFi users trade memecoins, perpetuals, and earn yield by providing integrated access to multiple DeFi protocols. With it, users can execute rapid trades, avoid MEV attacks, and track wallet activity, all from a single platform. Axiom reduces fragmentation in the DeFi ecosystem through a unified interface.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build Rust-based rollup nodes and sequencers to deliver zero-knowledge proof products on-chain. You will design secure, efficient systems and make pragmatic design choices that enable rapid development without sacrificing security. You will implement and evolve blockchain protocols, deploy and monitor high-uptime production services in the cloud, and use orchestration and containerization tools to operate reliable infrastructure. You will work within a large production codebase and apply a security-first mindset to all engineering decisions.
Requirements
- Fluency in Rust C++ or a similarly performant backend language
- Experience deploying and monitoring high-uptime applications to production in the cloud
- Experience with orchestration and containerization (Docker Terraform Kubernetes)
- Experience working within a large production codebase
- Strong engineering design skills and security mindset
- Ability to design and implement blockchain protocols
- Clear communication and collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Build Rust-based rollup nodes and sequencers
- Design secure and efficient blockchain systems
- Implement blockchain protocols
- Deploy and monitor high-uptime production services in the cloud
- Use orchestration and containerization tools such as Docker Terraform and Kubernetes
- Work within and maintain a large production codebase
- Make pragmatic technology choices to enable rapid development without sacrificing security
- Apply a security-first mindset and attention to detail
Benefits
- Equity
- Competitive salary
- Remote work option