Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Ether.fi is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to own core backend architecture, transaction processing, and high availability. You will be part of a key engineering team focusing on delivering distributed, scalable, and robust backend systems, working on areas such as card transaction processing, low latency APIs, microservice architectures, and on-chain data indexing.

Overview

Department

Engineering

Job type

Full time

Compensation

$170,000 - $200,000 per year

Location

Cayman Islands

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About Ether.fi

Ether.fi is one of the largest crypto companies in the world, with over $10B in assets under management and a team of almost all technical staff. The company has been profitable since day one and is focusing on building real consumer applications. The future they envisage is true on-chain banking.

Our current products; Stake, Liquid, and Cash enable users to earn yield in a variety of DeFi strategies, and spend their assets in the real world with our credit cards.

Position Overview

You will belong to a key engineering team focusing on delivering distributed, scalable and robust backend systems. Anything that a neobank would build is on our roadmap.

What You’ll Do

Own core areas of our backend systems, and extend current functionality to improve throughput and latency

Design, develop, and optimize scalable transaction processing services to support high-throughput, low-latency financial transactions

Tackle the challenges in user frictions for their card transactions being declined

Drive improvements in our Cloud Infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, automation, observability, and monitoring systems

What We Are Looking For

Strong fundamentals in software engineering and problem solving

You have shipped impressive products with thousands of real users

5+ years of professional coding experience

Drive, willingness to work hard and go the extra mile. We are a highly ambitious, driven team with audacious goals, and we work very hard to make them a reality

Plus if you are experienced in web3

Perks and Benefits

Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and token allocation grant

Opportunity to work on multi-billion dollar products as part of a small team

Health, dental, and vision insurance plans

Global team with opportunity for travel and working out of our 3 offices around the world

4 weeks work from anywhere

Exciting company events and team-building off-sites