Backend Engineer, Crypto

Talanto; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Talanto is building an all-in-one financial services platform backed by Walmart and Ribbit Capital. On the Crypto team you'll help define how customers buy and hold digital assets safely within the financial ecosystem.

Join a skilled team leveraging Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS and Kubernetes on AWS to deliver scalable crypto infrastructure and APIs with strong emphasis on security and reliability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or distributed systems experience.
• Experience with L2 blockchains and crypto infrastructure.
• Proven success building production-grade APIs at scale.
• Proficiency in Node.js or similar modern backend frameworks (TypeScript, NestJS, Go, or Java).
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, AWS) and event-driven or microservice-based systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration across product and platform teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure and backend services that enable crypto products
• Design APIs and event-driven architectures to handle high-volume transaction processing securely and efficiently
• Partner with platform and infrastructure engineers to ensure scalability, observability, and resilience
• Contribute to documentation, tooling, and best practices across the engineering organization

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

API design

Communication

Tools

Node.js

TypeScript

NestJS

Go

Java

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

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is an all-in-one financial services platform backed by Walmart and Ribbit Capital. On the Crypto team you'll help define how customers buy and hold digital assets safely within the financial ecosystem.

Stack: Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS microservices on Kubernetes and AWS; React Native clients; AI-assisted development (Claude Code or Cursor)

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain infrastructure and backend services that enable crypto products
• Design APIs and event-driven architectures to handle high-volume transaction processing securely and efficiently
• Partner with platform and infrastructure engineers to ensure scalability, observability, and resilience
• Contribute to documentation, tooling, and best practices across the engineering organization

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend or distributed systems development
• Experience with L2 blockchains, protocols and crypto infrastructure
• Proven success building production-grade APIs and financial services at scale
• Proficiency in Node.js or similar modern backend frameworks (TypeScript, NestJS, Go, or Java)
• Familiarity with cloud-native architecture (Kubernetes, AWS) and event-driven or microservice-based systems
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across product and platform teams