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Sr. Backend Engineer

Risk Labs
Global
Full time
$100,000 - $200,000 per year
Remote

Overview

Department

Engineering

Job type

Full time

Compensation

$100,000 - $200,000 per year

Location

Global

Company size

Scale Up [ 11<50 employees ]

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Senior Backend Engineer needed for the Across protocol team. Work alongside top engineering talent on building highly available backend systems and indexing complex onchain data.

Requirements

  • 4+ years full-time experience in Software Engineering at a software, financial services or related technology organization
  • 2+years of experience with blockchain-based projects (hackathons or personal projects as well)
  • Experience with databases, networking, and data pipelines is strongly preferred
  • Outstanding critical thinking skills; low ego, high curiosity and comfort in being wrong
  • Deep interest in software; desire to understand the why and the how of everything you work on
  • Demonstrated ability to learn new tech and write secure and clean code
  • Passion for blockchain technology, cryptonomic protocol design, game theory, and decentralized finance
  • Growth mindset; a desire to learn from and mentor those around you
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, especially written

    • Responsibilities

  • Building highly available backend systems, both serverless and persistent. These systems should have a high degree of correctness, efficiency, and anti-fragility.
  • Design systems that index complex onchain data for ease of use and speedy access. Gas efficient protocols rely on indexing to keep user experiences snappy and pleasant.
  • Design and develop large-scale data pipelines to drive our understanding of our users and our protocol’s real-world performance.
  • Build bots and other services whose primary role is to monitor smart contracts and send transactions. You will be responsible for building infrastructure that is responsible for company and user funds.
  • Write code in a highly collaborative open source ecosystem. As much of your day will be spent reviewing and designing code as it will be writing new code. We take pride in writing clean code.

    • Benefits

  • Pay packages include competitive salaries & meaningful token options.
  • Salaries for this role range from $100-200k (USD), and your token allocation can grow with your voting rewards while you participate in the growing ecosystem.
  • Will pay in stablecoins or fiat
  • Philosophies for a culture that show we care: Take vacation when you need it, family care, training and development (just to name a few)
  • 100% remote, which means we encourage you to create the work environment that you thrive in.
  • We are a globally distributed team and require all employees to have at least 3-4 hours of daily overlap with Eastern Standard Time (EST) to ensure seamless collaboration and communication. This allows us to work effectively across time zones while maintaining a strong team connection.
  • At least two team wide offsites a year
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