Senior Backend Engineer
Own backend systems across StartaleApp and other products, designing APIs and services, building scalable data pipelines, managing databases, integrating blockchain infrastructure, and operating reliable production systems across Web2 and Web3.
Responsibilities
- Own backend architecture and implementation across multiple products
- Design and maintain scalable production APIs and backend services
- Build and operate high-performance distributed systems
- Build data pipelines, background workers, asynchronous processing systems, and event-driven architectures
- Build blockchain integrations and indexing systems
- Design database schemas and optimize queries
- Diagnose production issues and performance bottlenecks
- Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, deployment pipelines, and system reliability
Requirements
- Extensive experience building and operating production backend systems
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NestJS, Fastify, Express, or similar frameworks
- Strong understanding of backend architecture, API design, service-oriented architecture, and distributed systems
- Experience operating large-scale systems under high traffic and heavy workloads
- Deep PostgreSQL expertise including schema design, indexing, query optimization, migrations, and production database management
- Experience with observability, logging, monitoring, and service health management
- Prior hands-on Web3 backend experience
- Experience with blockchain infrastructure, indexing systems, wallet architecture, transaction lifecycles, and DeFi protocols
- Experience with Docker and CI/CD is a plus
- Experience with Go and messaging systems is a plus
Benefits
- Ownership opportunities
- Competitive compensation
- Significant ownership and direct product impact
- Work alongside world-class engineers
- Opportunity to shape the future of Web3 products