Staff Backend Engineer

Superstate

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience
  • Expertise in building fault-tolerant, high-performance cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Deep Rust experience
  • Familiarity with web services for high traffic websites
  • Knowledge of SQL and query optimization
  • Understanding of the DeFi ecosystem

Responsibilities

  • Build back-end web services for blockchain and traditional finance integration
  • Develop APIs and integrate with partner custodians
  • Design and construct an internal Transfer Agent
  • Lead infrastructure as code initiatives
  • Collaborate with a small team, planning projects for long-term impact
  • Mentor and teach fellow engineers

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity ownership
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Paid parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance
Full Job Description
What you'll do

  • Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance
  • Build out APIs and integrations with our partner custodians
  • Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent
  • Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts
  • Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact
  • Teach and mentor other engineers


What you'll bring to the team

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience
  • Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS
  • Deep Rust experience
  • Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites
  • Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization
  • Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem
  • Exceptional judgment, strategic thinking and creative problem-solving skills with a strong analytical mindset


Bonus points if you have experience with these technologies

  • Pulumi or Terraform
  • AWS - Fargate, RDS, Cloudfront, EC2, ECS, Nitro Enclave
  • Cloudflare
  • Postgres
  • Docker
  • Typescript
  • Solana Programs
  • Layer 2 blockchains and cross-chain bridges
  • Solidity or Yul
  • Foundry


Benefits & Perks

  • Competitive compensation
  • Equity ownership
  • Flexible vacation policy
  • Paid parental leave
  • Full medical, dental, and vision insurance


Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.

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