Remote Senior Platform Engineer - Crypto Backend Architect

Cyclops; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company issued laptop

Technology Accessories

Annual In‑Person Full‑Team Meetup

Job summary

Cyclops is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a Technical Leadership / Platform focus to design scalable backend systems, improve reliability, and guide long-term platform evolution. You will own complex backend work in TypeScript/Node.js, drive architecture reviews with partners, and raise the team’s technical maturity through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

This fully remote role accepts contributors in the US, Latin America, and beyond, with US business hours and strong English

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional backend development experience.
• Deep hands-on experience building and operating crypto infrastructure: custody, wallets, exchange, payment, or settlement systems.
• Strong backend expertise in TypeScript and Node.js.
• Deep experience in distributed system design: microservices architecture, service boundaries and data models, REST APIs and API contracts, queues and asynchronous communication.
• Hands-on production experience: incident response, debugging, API failures, data issues.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve core platform services, focusing on reliability, data integrity, and clear service boundaries aligned with business requirements.
• Identify architectural risks, scalability limits, and weak points before they become production issues; recognize when existing tools reach their limits and propose pragmatic, incremental improvement or migration paths.
• Own the technical relationship with partners as the primary technical point of contact: lead solution reviews, troubleshooting, and roadmap alignment; document technical decisions and integration details; ensure partners understand expectations, timelines, and constraints.
• Design and improve reliability mechanisms: retries and backoff, timeouts and idempotency, handling of partial failures, degraded and fallback modes.
• Drive improvements in observability (metrics, logs, tracing, operational visibility) and participate in production incident analysis.
• Contribute during the Discovery stage of projects: build PoCs, validate ideas, analyze third‑party vendor APIs and proposed integration flows.
• Implement the most complex and high‑risk backend components using TypeScript and Node.js, owning correctness under partial failure scenarios.
• Raise the overall technical maturity of the team, including senior engineers: thoughtful code reviews, decomposition of large or ambiguous problems, knowledge sharing through pairing and documentation.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Distributed systems

Incident response

Mentor engineers

English communication

Team collaboration

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

SQS

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Cyclops is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a Technical Leadership / Platform focus to design scalable backend systems, improve reliability, and guide long-term platform evolution. You will own complex backend work in TypeScript/Node.js, drive architecture reviews with partners, and raise the team’s technical maturity through code reviews and knowledge sharing.

This fully remote role accepts contributors in the US, Latin America, and beyond, with US business hours and strong English