DeFi Backend Engineer: On-Chain Trading (Solana/EVM)

True Markets; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: $160,000 – $200,000 per year +

Equity opportunity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

In-office, New York City

Job summary

True Markets is seeking a senior DeFi Engineer to own the backend services behind onchain trading, including quoting, execution, and settlement across Solana and EVM chains. The work runs in Go in a shared monorepo: integrating venues and aggregators, listing new markets, wiring price feeds, and tracing an order from quote through signed transaction to confirmed fill.

This is a senior role on a small team with end-to-end ownership from design through production, based in New York City with

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and shipping production backend services.
• Deep proficiency in Go or fast learning in another statically typed language.
• Hands-on Solana or EVM development — RPC, transaction construction, signing, and confirmation.
• Strong grasp of crypto fundamentals: wallets, tokens, gas, and onchain settlement.
• AI-native tooling as a daily multiplier with careful verification.
• Strong written communication and high autonomy in a small team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship backend services in Go across quoting, execution, and settlement.
• Own projects end to end from design through migration, rollout, and production verification.
• Integrate onchain venues and providers, including DEX aggregators and signing infrastructure.
• List and configure new markets, including price sources and asset metadata.
• Maintain market data ingest: onchain and exchange price feeds, time-series storage, APIs.

Skills

Go

Solana/EVM development

Crypto fundamentals

Autonomy & communication

AI-native tooling (Claude Code)

Job description

True Markets is seeking a senior DeFi Engineer to own the backend services behind onchain trading, including quoting, execution, and settlement across Solana and EVM chains. The work runs in Go in a shared monorepo: integrating venues and aggregators, listing new markets, wiring price feeds, and tracing an order from quote through signed transaction to confirmed fill.

This is a senior role on a small team with end-to-end ownership from design through production, based in New York City with