Senior Lead Backend Engineer
Neverless is an EU-regulated investment and trading platform for crypto, stocks, ETFs, precious metals, lending, and algorithmic investment strategies. It provides retail users with trading tools, leverage, interest-earning balances, and portfolio-backed borrowing.
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About Neverless
Neverless operates a multi-asset investment platform offering access to cryptocurrencies, US stocks, ETFs, gold and silver, and proprietary Strategies™ investments. Users can deposit fiat or stablecoins, trade with tools including leverage, shorting, recurring buys and advanced orders, earn daily interest on selected balances, and borrow against their portfolios. The company states that it operates through entities registered or licensed in Spain and Latvia for crypto-asset custody, exchange, crypto-asset services, and investment services.
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About the Role
You will design, build, and scale backend infrastructure supporting trading execution, regulatory reporting, user accounts, and asset custody. You will architect distributed systems for high-throughput financial transactions, own service reliability, performance, and security, and maintain CI/CD, monitoring, and observability tooling. You will work with product and compliance colleagues to deliver regulatory-compliant features, champion clean code, TDD, code review, and documentation, and contribute to technical decisions and engineering practices.
Requirements
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- 4+ years of Java development experience.
- Experience architecting large-scale complex systems and addressing performance, reliability, and security requirements.
- Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and concurrency programming.
- Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and automated monitoring.
- Experience with clean coding and TDD.
- Fluency in English.
- Proficiency in Rust.
- Professional experience writing and deploying blockchain smart contracts.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and scale backend infrastructure for trading execution, regulatory reporting, user accounts, and asset custody.
- Architect and evolve large-scale distributed systems for high-throughput financial transactions.
- Own the reliability, performance, and security of core backend services.
- Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated monitoring, and observability tooling.
- Partner with product and compliance teams to implement features that meet user and regulatory requirements.
- Establish and champion clean code, TDD, code review, and documentation practices.
- Contribute to technical decision-making and shape the engineering culture as the team scales.
Benefits
- Equity.
- Annual performance bonus.
- Fully expensed equipment.
- Remote-flexible work.
