Senior Backend Engineer - Hyperliquid ecosystem (Fully Remote)

Jobgether SRL; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobgether is a remote-first company building infrastructure for decentralized financial markets, powering real-time trading and data pipelines used by hundreds of thousands of traders. The team values technical excellence, collaboration, and significant ownership in a fast-paced 0-to-1 environment.

As a Backend Engineer, you will own architecture decisions, work across distributed systems, and ensure scalable, reliable APIs in a fast growth setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong TypeScript production experience.
• Proven experience with real-time systems, trading concepts, and distributed systems.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills in an ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Own key architecture and technical decisions across backend systems.
• Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver robust APIs.
• Build and operate real-time data pipelines handling order book updates, trades, and market events.
• Design and maintain API infrastructure including GraphQL and WebSockets.
• Instrument services with metrics, monitoring, and alerting, and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Backend engineering

TypeScript

Real-time systems

Distributed systems

Trading concepts

Communication

Problem-solving

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

ClickHouse

GraphQL

WebSockets

Job description

• Own key architecture and technical decisions across backend systems, ensuring they remain scalable, reliable, and performant.
• Contribute to a fast-paced 0-to-1 development environment with meaningful ownership.
• Collaborate with frontend and mobile engineers to deliver robust APIs.

Data and Infrastructure:

• Build and operate real-time data pipelines handling order book updates, trades, and market events.
• Design and maintain API infrastructure including GraphQL and WebSockets.
• Work extensively with PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse, and similar technologies.

Performance and Reliability:

• Optimize queries, caching strategies, schemas, and data access patterns.
• Instrument services with metrics, monitoring, and alerting, and participate in on-call rotations.
• Investigate and resolve latency, memory, and performance issues under production workloads.

Requirements and Collaboration:

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong TypeScript production experience.
• Proven experience with real-time systems, trading concepts, and distributed systems.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills in an ambiguous environment.

Jobgether

They build infrastructure for decentralized financial markets, powering real-time trading and data pipelines for products used by hundreds of thousands of traders. They are a high-growth, remote-first team that values technical excellence, collaboration, and significant ownership in a fast-paced 0-to-1 environment.