Backend Engineer - Crypto Wallets & Onchain APIs

Stripe, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 157,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus

401(k) plan

Medical benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Privy is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build the backend systems powering wallets, identity, and on-chain infrastructure at scale. You will create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to move faster.

You will lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems, improving scalability and reliability while shaping the technical direction with high-leverage work. Strong API and security focus essential.

Qualifications

• Production system design and maintenance experience at scale.
• Knowledge of API design and best practices.
• Experience with data modeling, migrations, and infra config.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Growth mindset, curiosity, and fearlessness to learn.
• Willingness to write maintainable, well-tested code.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including docs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend systems powering wallets, identity, and onchain infra.
• Create platform primitives and APIs across Privy and Stripe.
• Lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems.
• Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of our core platform.
• Shape our technical direction through high-leverage engineering work.

Skills

Production systems at scale

API design

Data modeling

Distributed systems

Code quality

Tools

Node

React

AWS

Job description

Privy is seeking a senior backend engineer to design and build the backend systems powering wallets, identity, and on-chain infrastructure at scale. You will create platform primitives and APIs that enable teams across Privy and Stripe to move faster.

You will lead complex technical initiatives across architecture, data, and distributed systems, improving scalability and reliability while shaping the technical direction with high-leverage work. Strong API and security focus essential.