Founding Backend Engineer — Build the Crypto Trading Engine

RareSkills LLC

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 230,000

Full time

30 hours ago
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Job summary

Undisclosed is seeking a founding Backend Engineer to turn a bold product vision into a robust system. You will own the architecture and the minute details, shaping the core of a crypto trading platform.

Stack includes TypeScript, Node, Express 5, Postgres with Drizzle, pnpm monorepo, Awilix, Vitest, AWS services, Solana; Rust and Go are a plus. You will build and scale the trading infra to support growing volume.

Qualifications

  • Build the best trading system in crypto.
  • Own the entire trading infrastructure.
  • Build the payout system that shares fees with the people who drive volume.
  • Turn a dozen data providers into one reliable source of truth.
  • Earn trust at the worst possible moment.
  • Scale the system to $100M daily volume.

Responsibilities

  • Build the best trading system in crypto.
  • Own the entire trading infrastructure.
  • Build the payout system that shares fees with the people who drive volume.
  • Turn a dozen data providers into one reliable source of truth.
  • Earn trust at the worst possible moment.
  • Scale the system to $100M daily volume.

Skills

TypeScript
Node.js
Rust
Go
Backend architecture

Tools

Express 5
Postgres with Drizzle
pnpm monorepo
Awilix
Vitest
AWS (SQS, ECS, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudWatch)
Solana

Job description

Undisclosed is seeking a founding Backend Engineer to turn a bold product vision into a robust system. You will own the architecture and the minute details, shaping the core of a crypto trading platform.

Stack includes TypeScript, Node, Express 5, Postgres with Drizzle, pnpm monorepo, Awilix, Vitest, AWS services, Solana; Rust and Go are a plus. You will build and scale the trading infra to support growing volume.

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