Staff Backend Engineer

P2P; Île-de-France; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 100 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Top-tier compensation

Real flexibility

Health coverage

Support for continuous learning

Résumé du poste

A leading finance decentralized protocol, P2P, is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and maintain high-performance backend services and APIs. The role requires strong experience with TypeScript, Node, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL. Successful candidates will collaborate across teams to optimize service delivery and improve system reliability. This position offers remote working options and a culture focused on employee growth and work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience for Senior Level, with backend systems and GraphQL APIs.
• 8-10+ years for Staff Level, leading large projects and data modelling.

Responsabilités

• Design and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL.
• Collaborate with multiple teams to deliver end-to-end features.
• Monitor and improve production systems focusing on reliability.

Connaissances

Backend systems design

GraphQL APIs

PostgreSQL

TypeScript/Node

Observability

Incident response

Description du poste

About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that recently secured $50 million from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to build an open lending network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms. Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $10 billion in deposits on the network, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone, not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

Our Mission

Morpho’s mission is to power human ambition with open access to capital. Human ambition has no borders, but the capital to fuel it does. Today’s financial system is closed and fragmented. No one sees all opportunities, most overpay, and some are excluded entirely. We believe capital should flow efficiently to where it’s needed most — giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms.

Location

Paris or remote (from -5 GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

How we work

We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook : navigating uncertainty is part of the job. You’ll be challenged: anyone can question work and decisions must be justified. We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego. More about our values: morpho.org/jobs.

Role & Responsibilities

Role

You will build and maintain reliable, high-performance backend services and APIs that power Morpho’s consumer and business-critical features. Depending on your experience level, this role may include ownership of entire backend domains, mentoring other engineers, and driving cross-team impact.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate backend services in TypeScript/Node and GraphQL, delivering reliable, low-latency user-facing experiences.
• Model data, evolve relational schemas (PostgreSQL) and optimise for correctness, performance and maintainability.
• Collaborate with frontend, product, protocol, risk, and security teams to ship end-to-end outcomes.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production systems: focusing on observability, incident response, reliability, and operational excellence.
• Simplify systems: reduce complexity, pay down tech debt, standardise patterns.
• (For more senior levels) Drive cross-team initiatives, sponsor technical design, mentor engineers, and become the go-to owner for critical backend domains.

What Success Looks Like

1. First 30 days:
   • Ramp up on our APIs, data flows and deployment practices; ship a safe, user-visible improvement.
   • Establish clear async communication and collaboration habits.
2. Within ~4-6 months:
   • Own delivery of scoped features end to end; propose and land architecture improvements.
   • Improve reliability through enhanced observability, testing and incident management.
3. Within ~12 months:
   • Become a trusted owner of a key backend domain with a multi-quarter roadmap.
   • Consistently deliver high-impact features, resolve complex cross-team problems, and help raise the team’s standard on reliability, performance and operational excellence.

Must‑have Experience

• Senior Level: ~3-5 years building backend systems, working with GraphQL APIs and relational databases (especially PostgreSQL).
• Staff Level: ~8-10+ years of backend development, leading cross-team designs and shipping large ambiguous projects; deep strength in data modelling, performance optimisation and production operations.

Perks & benefits

We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.

Equal opportunity

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.

Ready to shape the future of finance?