Staff Backend Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will shape and drive the architecture and execution of major backend initiatives. You will design and build resilient, scalable, and high-performance systems, write well tested production code, and review code from peers. You will lead projects end-to-end, mentor engineers, promote engineering best practices, and drive strategic technical efforts that improve systems across the organization.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining large-scale production systems
• Experience as a Technical Lead or in a similar leadership capacity
• Exceptional coding skills and expertise in cloud architecture distributed systems and algorithms
• Proven ability to independently lead projects including requirements gathering system design implementation testing and deployment
• Track record of mentoring and guiding engineers
• Experience building systems and processes from scratch (0→1 mindset)
• Deep interest in modern development practices and a passion for crypto technology

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end execution of technical projects from ideation and design to deployment
• Design and build resilient large-scale systems with a focus on reliability scalability and performance
• Write high-quality well-tested production code
• Review code from other team members
• Provide thought leadership and guide peers in complex architectural and coding decisions
• Champion best practices and technical excellence across the engineering organization
• Spearhead strategic technical initiatives that impact multiple engineering pods and deliver organization-wide improvements

Benefits

• Company-paid medical dental and vision for you and your dependents
• Gym subsidy
• 401(k) with 4% employer contribution
• Annual 1500 education stipend
• Unlimited and encouraged time off
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Home office setup stipend for remote employees
• Daily lunches at New York headquarters
• Equity eligibility
• Token allocation eligibility