Staff Backend Engineer

Location: Remote (US preferred)

Level: Staff / Principal

Competitive base salary ($175K - $225K)

We are hiring on behalf of our client, a high-growth, venture-backed crypto company is hiring a Staff Backend Engineer to help build next-generation autonomous trading infrastructure.

This is a senior, ownership-heavy role working on real-time trading systems, wallets, and execution infrastructure operating under extreme market conditions. The client is highly responsive and only interviewing candidates who meet all criteria.

🚨 Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria

Candidates must have all of the following:

• Hands-on experience with crypto wallets, tokens, and/or trading systems
• Deep production experience with Golang, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Deep familiarity with trading APIs, execution flows, and transaction lifecycles

If any of the above is missing, this role will not be a fit.

The Role

You’ll own core systems inside the Agent Runtime — the infrastructure that prevents autonomous agents from destroying capital. Specifically:

• Hyperfeed data pipeline — executing the enrichment roadmap: OI velocity, funding history, liquidation data, cross-asset flow detection. Server-side computation at scale.
• Runtime execution layer — serial signal processing, atomic state management, idempotent order submission, risk enforcement against live exchange state
• DSL exit engine — the trailing stop-loss state machine that protects every open position. Two-phase architecture, exchange reconciliation, state recovery
• Scanner subsystem — building new scanner types, optimizing the provider layer, wiring new Hyperfeed signals into the confluence scoring system
• Learning agent infrastructure — building the systems that let agents observe every trade, identify failure patterns, propose runtime improvements, and launch new experiments autonomously
• Scale — taking the runtime from hundreds of agents to tens of thousands

Requirements

What They Are Looking For

• Seniority & Ownership
• Staff-level engineer capable of owning large, complex systems
• Proven ability to lead work end-to-end: problem definition → architecture → production
• Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous environments

• Crypto-Native Experience (Essential)
• Direct experience building or operating crypto wallets, trading platforms, or execution systems
• Deep understanding of real-world market behaviour, volatility, and scale
• Strong intuition for how trading systems behave under stress
• Crypto experience is essential. Product specifics can be learned - crypto fluency cannot.

• Technical Skills
• Strong production experience with:
• Golang
• Node.js
• TypeScript
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, performance, and reliability
• Experience building high-throughput backend services
• Python experience (scanners and DSL components) is a plus
• Actively uses AI tools in development and iteration (must-have)

• Operating Excellence
• Experience running production systems: monitoring, on-call, incident response
• Strong bias toward correctness and safety in financial systems
• Pragmatic, outcome-focused approach to shipping

Benefits

• Compensation & Upside
• Competitive base salary ($175K - $225K)
• Meaningful equity (~1%)
• Performance-based bonuses tied to revenue and usage
• Token participation aligned with future protocol launch

• Interview Process
1. Hiring Manager Interview
2. CTO Intro Call
3. Technical Interview
4. Technical Interview
5. Founder / CEO Interview

• Location
• Remote (US preferred)
• Strong preference for Austin, TX (office planned)
• Exceptional candidates in Europe will be considered

Due to the high volume of applications we anticipate, we regret that we are unable to provide individual feedback to all candidates. If you do not hear back from us within 4 weeks of y