Staff Backend Engineer

6 months agoLead New York, USA Hybrid Backend Jobs by Daylight Studios, Inc.

Skills

Onchain Data Offchain Data Performance Postgres Node.Js Typescript Aws Rest

About the Role

You will design, implement, and maintain backend services and APIs that serve high request volumes with low latency. You will optimize Postgres queries, profile and trace code paths to remove bottlenecks, and operate highly available AWS infrastructure. You will collaborate with product to define and prioritize features, write well-tested maintainable code, and work on features such as feeds, discovery, trading metrics, trade comments, and protocol indexers.

Requirements

Deep experience with Node.js and Typescript
Experience with Postgres and query optimization
Experience with Redis
Experience operating services on AWS
Experience designing and building programmatic APIs and REST services
5+ years at tech startups with large-scale user traffic
Experience maintaining highly available infrastructure

Responsibilities

Build clean, maintainable, and well-tested backend code
Design backend REST APIs for usability and scale
Collaborate with product to define, prioritize, and build features
Optimize Postgres queries and database performance
Profile and trace code paths to identify and remove bottlenecks
Operate and optimize AWS infrastructure for high availability
Serve high-throughput low-latency APIs summarizing onchain and offchain data

Benefits

Competitive pay and generous equity
Full medical dental vision insurance
Flexible time off