Staff Backend Engineer
Open infrastructure for onchain loans. Connect to the most trusted lending network.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Morpho Labs
Morpho provides open infrastructure for onchain loans, allowing users to earn, borrow, curate, and build. Earn: Put your crypto to work by depositing to start earning. Morpho offers optimized vaults, tailored strategies based on risk level, and non-custodial smart contracts. Borrow: Provide collateral to borrow any asset with low costs, higher collateralization factors, per-market rates, and zero fees. For Curators & Businesses: - Curate: Earn fees for optimizing yield, risk, and liquidity by deploying open, customizable, and scalable vaults and markets. - Build: Build custom lending use cases with Morpho's efficient, flexible, and secure infrastructure, maintaining full ownership and control.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Build and maintain reliable, performant backend services and APIs. Develop backend features using TypeScript and Node.js, design GraphQL APIs and data models, operate PostgreSQL-backed data pipelines, monitor production systems, collaborate with frontend and product teams, improve architecture, and document decisions and updates.
Requirements
- 3-5 years of backend development experience
- Hands-on experience with GraphQL APIs
- Hands-on experience with relational databases, especially PostgreSQL
- Strong interest in the Web3 ecosystem
- Experience collaborating with frontend teams or building backend-for-frontend layers
Responsibilities
- Develop backend features with TypeScript and Node.js
- Design and evolve GraphQL APIs and data models
- Operate and improve PostgreSQL-backed data pipelines
- Collaborate with frontend engineers and product on end-to-end features
- Implement architecture improvements to simplify systems and reduce operational burden
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues
- Write clear documentation and async updates
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Health coverage
- Periodic in-person time in Paris
- Fair, top-tier compensation
- Support for continued learning
Hiring Process
Process takes 3 to 6 weeks, depending on the position: interview with the Talent Lead, interview with the future manager, case study, and interview with a co-founder.
