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Staff Backend Engineer

Superstate
New York CityPosted 1y+ ago

Role at a glance

Location
New York City
Type
Full-time
Level
Lead / Principal
Function
Engineering

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About this role

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Superstate is building the backend infrastructure required to bridge traditional financial assets with blockchain-based programmability. As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will architect systems that integrate with custodians, manage internal transfer agent logic, and facilitate self-custody for tokenized products. The role focuses on high-performance cloud infrastructure and robust API development to streamline the intersection of DeFi and institutional finance.

  • 9+ years of professional engineering experience
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
  • Deep professional experience with Rust
  • Expertise in building fault-tolerant, high-performance AWS cloud infrastructure
  • Familiarity with SQL query planning and optimization
RustAWSDeFiSQLBlockchain InfrastructureAPI Development

Summary written by RWA Signal. The employer’s own description follows below.

About the role (from employer)

Tired of the inefficiencies and complexities of traditional finance? We are too. At Superstate, we create investment products that benefit from the speed, programmability, and compliance advantages of blockchain tokenization.
 
As an engineer at Superstate, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of tokenized assets. You'll work on blockchain-integrated systems that allow investors to self-custody financial assets, and design the systems, APIs, and infrastructure to make finance itself more efficient.

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
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome qualified candidates of all races, creeds, genders, age, veteran status and sexuality to apply.

Founded in 2023, Superstate is backed by leading investors including Distributed Global, CoinFund, Breyer Capital, Galaxy, ParaFi, 1kx, and Cumberland.
Source & provenanceThis job is published by Superstate on their own careers site (12 November 2024) and aggregated by RWA Signal.View original posting

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