Senior Backend Engineer

Kaleido is an institutional enterprise platform for tokenization, digital-asset custody, digital cash, Web3 middleware, interoperability, and public or permissioned blockchain infrastructure.

Raleigh, United States
About Kaleido

Kaleido, Inc. provides a modular enterprise blockchain and digital-asset platform for regulated institutions and network operators. Its current platform spans digital assets, custody, tokenization, digital cash, Web3 orchestration, interoperability, chain infrastructure, consortium networks, and CBDC or financial-market-infrastructure launchpads. Kaleido also creates and leads maintenance of open-source projects including Paladin, Zeto, Hyperledger Besu, and Hyperledger FireFly.

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Candidate Availability

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About the Role

You will design and build scalable Go services and APIs for blockchain and digital asset platforms. You will operate cloud-native microservices, improve delivery automation and engineering standards, integrate blockchain capabilities, and help maintain reliable high-scale production systems.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of backend software engineering experience
  • Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
  • Go
  • distributed system
  • microservice
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • infrastructure automation
  • networking
  • API
  • concurrency
  • production operations
  • reliability
  • performance
  • communication

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable backend services and APIs in Go
  • Develop infrastructure and platform tooling for blockchain and digital asset systems
  • Build and operate cloud-native microservices in Kubernetes production environments
  • Integrate blockchain networks, protocols, and platform capabilities
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and internal tooling
  • Evaluate AI-assisted engineering workflows and tooling
  • Contribute to architecture discussions and engineering standards
  • Track developments in blockchain infrastructure and backend engineering

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Open paid time off
  • Retirement savings options

Hiring Process

Recruiter interview → Manager interview → Project → Playback and team interview → Founder conversation