Staff Backend Engineer
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