Senior Backend Engineer - Real-Time, High-Throughput Crypto

Deciml; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Deciml's Terminal team builds the real-time trading experience used by our platform's busiest users. You’ll help ingest on-chain and market data, process it in real time, and serve low-latency results to a huge, concurrent audience.

We expect strong production backend work in TypeScript/Node.js, deep distributed-systems knowledge (concurrency, replication, persistence), and experience with Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and caching.

A fast-growth, high-ownership environment awaits.

Qualifications

• Strong production experience building backend systems in TypeScript and Node.js (TS/JS).
• Deep understanding of distributed systems: concurrency, partitioning, replication, consistency models, idempotency and failure modes.
• Experience building and running real-time, high-throughput services under real load.
• Hands-on experience with message queues and event streaming (e.g. Kafka, Redis Streams, NATS) and event-driven architectures.
• Strong grasp of databases and caching (PostgreSQL, Redis), including schema design and query performance at scale.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Distributed systems

Real-time systems

Tail latency

Message queues

Kafka

Redis Streams

NATS

PostgreSQL

Caching

Tools

Kafka

Redis

PostgreSQL

Kubernetes

Docker

IaC

Job description

Deciml's Terminal team builds the real-time trading experience used by our platform's busiest users. You’ll help ingest on-chain and market data, process it in real time, and serve low-latency results to a huge, concurrent audience.

We expect strong production backend work in TypeScript/Node.js, deep distributed-systems knowledge (concurrency, replication, persistence), and experience with Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and caching.

A fast-growth, high-ownership environment awaits.