Senior Backend Engineer - Crypto Infrastructure & APIs

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

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.