Remote Backend Engineer: Cross-Chain DeFi & Payments

Jobgether; Italy; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity package

Health benefits

Unlimited PTO

Remote-first

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Backend Engineer, Solving, based in Italy. You will develop core systems powering fast, reliable cross-chain transactions, building the quotes engine, routing, and settlement across on-chain and off-chain liquidity venues.

You will work primarily with TypeScript and Node.js, tackling complex backend challenges in DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, and payments while ensuring high availability, pricing accuracy, and profitability.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with TypeScript and Node.js.
• Hands-on experience building systems that interact with on-chain protocols and DeFi basics.
• Ability to design multi-stage processing pipelines for end-to-end transaction flows.
• Focus on reliability, observability, and robust error handling in production systems.
• Experience integrating with DEXs or liquidity providers is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and continually improve the core quote-generation and pricing engine with on-chain feeds and routing.
• Develop integrations with DEXs and aggregators (1inch, LiFi, Uniswap) and implement calldata, multi-hop routing, and gas estimation.
• Own end-to-end transaction pipelines from detection to settlement.
• Improve reliability with structured error propagation and monitoring using Datadog.
• Identify and resolve execution failures, bottlenecks, and edge cases.
• Collaborate with protocol teams to integrate new settlement primitives and decentralize liquidity.
• Develop pricing features for cross-chain payments and fixed pricing for major assets.
• Drive projects from concept to production and optimize for performance and reliability.
• Contribute to backend architecture improvements and tooling for scalable cross-chain infrastructure.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Backend engineering

DeFi knowledge

Observability

Tools

Datadog

BullMQ

Redis

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Backend Engineer, Solving, based in Italy. You will develop core systems powering fast, reliable cross-chain transactions, building the quotes engine, routing, and settlement across on-chain and off-chain liquidity venues.

You will work primarily with TypeScript and Node.js, tackling complex backend challenges in DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, and payments while ensuring high availability, pricing accuracy, and profitability.