Senior Backend Engineer - Rust, Cloud & DeFi APIs

HireChain Ltd; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Superstate seeks an experienced engineer to design and build scalable, secure back-end systems that connect blockchain-based assets with traditional finance. You will shape APIs, custodial integrations, and a robust internal Transfer Agent while leading infrastructure-as-code initiatives.

You will mentor peers, guide long-term project planning, and collaborate closely with a compact team to advance tokenized asset infrastructure and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• 9+ years of professional engineering experience.
• Expertise in building fault tolerant, high performance, and highly available cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Deep Rust experience.
• Familiarity building web-services for highly-trafficked websites.
• Familiarity with SQL, query planning and optimization.
• Familiarity with the current DeFi ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Build back-end web services that interact with blockchains and traditional finance.
• Build out APIs and integrations with our partner custodians.
• Design and build out an internal Transfer Agent.
• Lead, build and test our infrastructure as code efforts.
• Enthusiastically collaborate with a small team, owning and planning projects for long-term impact.
• Teach and mentor other engineers.

Skills

Rust expert

AWS cloud infra

High availability

Blockchain/DeFi familiarity

SQL optimization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Cloudflare

Docker

Typescript

Layer 2 & cross-chain bridges

Solidity or Yul

Job description

Superstate seeks an experienced engineer to design and build scalable, secure back-end systems that connect blockchain-based assets with traditional finance. You will shape APIs, custodial integrations, and a robust internal Transfer Agent while leading infrastructure-as-code initiatives.

You will mentor peers, guide long-term project planning, and collaborate closely with a compact team to advance tokenized asset infrastructure and performance.