Senior Node.js Engineer — Scalable DeFi Microservices

1inch; England; On-site; GBP 89,000 - 133,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Unlimited vacation days

Fully compensated work gear

Annual team retreat

Job summary

A leading DeFi company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on designing and implementing scalable microservices and APIs. The role offers a hybrid work schedule and is ideal for candidates with experience in fintech or blockchain technologies. Responsibilities include optimizing backend components and ensuring service architecture efficiency while promoting best practices. Competitive pay and unlimited vacation included.

Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, DeFi or crypto projects.
• Experience with microservices architecture in a high-load environment.
• Experience managing metrics pipelines and alerting systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable microservices and APIs.
• Ensure low latency and high throughput in service architecture.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.
• Monitor technical and business metrics.
• Perform system performance analysis.
• Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions.
• Promote best engineering practices across the team.
• Ensure backend systems are secure and resilient.
• Identify and mitigate system vulnerabilities.
• Stay updated with emerging backend technologies.

Skills

Node.js/TypeScript

SQL

PostgreSQL

Redis

NATS

Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

Blockchain fundamentals

Web3

Solidity

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

A leading DeFi company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer focused on designing and implementing scalable microservices and APIs. The role offers a hybrid work schedule and is ideal for candidates with experience in fintech or blockchain technologies. Responsibilities include optimizing backend components and ensuring service architecture efficiency while promoting best practices. Competitive pay and unlimited vacation included.