Senior Engineer, Backend (Data Platform)

Phantom; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity

Comprehensive insurance (medical/dent 

Stipend for remote setup

Flexible hours

Unlimited vacation

401(k) retirement plan

Wellness stipend

Weekly meal stipend

Job summary

Phantom is building a scalable streaming blockchain data platform. You will design, build, and optimize ETL pipelines to ingest on-chain data and deliver high-quality, real-time data to product teams. You’ll own critical platform functionality and work cross-functionally to raise the bar with each hire.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of backend experience, hands-on data engineering with Go/TypeScript, and a passion for Web3. This is a fully remote role with competitive compensation and equity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience at scale.
• Experience with ETL pipelines and data engineering in high-growth environments.
• Proficiency in Go, Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• ETL & Data Pipeline Design: Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable ETL pipelines sourcing, transforming, and integrating data from on-chain sources.

Skills

5+ Years Backend Experience

ETL Pipeline Design

Go/Node.js/TypeScript

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Data Quality & Observability

Web3/Crypto Knowledge

Tools

NestJS

Redis

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Go

TypeScript

Job description

Phantom is on a mission to connect the world to the freedom of open markets. Tens of millions of people all over the world use Phantom to access global markets that never close, including perpetuals, prediction markets, tokenized assets, stablecoins and memes. Phantom users are able to discover the markets that matter and the cultural moments that shape them, building conviction through real-time data and the verified performance of top traders. With self-custody and access to open networks at its core, Phantom lets them control their financial moves in the same app they use to safely store or spend money worldwide.

Phantom has reached #1 in Google Play's finance category and consistently ranks in the top 50 apps across all categories. Check out our Forbes Fintech 50 and CNBC and Statista's World's Top Fintech Companies 2026!

We are around 180 people, fully remote, backed by a $150M Series C investment from a16z, Sequoia Capital and Paradigm.

Role Description

As a core member of Phantom’s Data Platform team, you will design, build, and optimize our streaming blockchain data platform to enable high-quality, scalable ingestion, transformation, and delivery of token, price and spam data. As an owner of a critical platform function, you’ll empower other product engineering teams at Phantom by providing access to rich, accurate, realtime on-chain data.

Responsibilities

• ETL & Data Pipeline Design: Develop, maintain, and optimize scalable ETL pipelines using our modern data stack. You’ll be responsible for sourcing, transforming, and integrating data from on-chain sources.

• Data Quality & Observability: Drive initiatives to implement data quality frameworks and observability solutions that ensure the accuracy, freshness, and reliability of data across all pipelines.

• Architect for Scalability & Performance: Build systems capable of handling millions of requests per day, with a focus on high availability, low latency, and strong fault tolerance, in service of other engineering teams’ data access needs at Phantom.

• Data Modeling & Schema Design: Design and maintain efficient data models and schemas that underpin our efforts.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable backend platform solutions.

• Team building: Work with the team to create and foster a culture of raising the bar with each new hire.
  

Qualifications

• 5+ Years of Backend Experience: Demonstrated success in building large-scale, high-availability systems.

• Deep experience building and optimizing modern ETL pipelines and data engineering solutions in high-growth environments.

• Experience with the languages/frameworks in our stack (e.g. Go, Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Kafka, redis, PostgreSQL)

• Demonstrated experience implementing data quality frameworks along with observability and monitoring solutions.

• Web3/Crypto Knowledge: Familiarity with on-chain data, wallet integrations, or decentralized application patterns is strongly preferred.

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a lean team structure.

Why Work with Us

We are a team of experienced builders in the blockchain and crypto industry. Our journey began from users seeking an easy, seamless path to accessing the crypto ecosystem. This passion fueled our exponential growth, allowing us to onboard over 16M+ active users in just over three years; with our user base growing weekly. Our dedication to a secure and seamless user experience has made us the leading wallet on Solana as well as our multi-chain approach enhances our platform's versatility, meeting the needs of a diverse and growing user base. By staying at the forefront of technology and user expectations, we continue to innovate and set industry standards on self-custodial crypto wallets.

There has never been a better time to work in crypto to help shape the future of innovation with a focus around the wallet experience!

• First impressions matter: Wallets are responsible for a users first impression with crypto and onboarding new users into crypto. By ensuring that a user has a great first-time experience with crypto, we can help supercharge the growth of the entire ecosystem.

• Make crypto easier to navigate: There is no easy way for a user to discover and navigate all that crypto has to offer. Wallets have a unique opportunity to help users not only onboard to crypto but also stay retained by exploring new things to do.

• We live in a multi-chain world: We currently support Solana, Ethereum, Polygon and Bitcoin with more networks to come in the new future. We are focused on creating a unified, multi-chain crypto experience for users.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision) 100% covered

• Stipend for your ideal remote set-up

• Flexible hours and a supportive remote environment

• Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Monthly wellness benefit

• Weekly meal benefit

• Global off-sites

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

Why Work With Us

Phantom's journey to becoming a global trading app began with making crypto easier to use. Today, we’re building on that foundation to help people discover the markets that matter, make informed financial moves, and safely store or spend their money worldwide. Joining Phantom means helping shape that next chapter: building products that bring the freedom of open markets to more people.

• Build for global impact: Create products used by tens of millions of people, making innovative financial markets more accessible to users around the world.

• Make complexity feel simple: Solve meaningful challenges across design, engineering, and user experience to make discovering markets and managing money seamless.

• Put users in control: Help build a future where people have greater freedom over their assets and financial decisions, with security and self-custody at the foundation.

Benefits (only available to full-time employees)

• Competitive salary and equity

• Comprehensive insurance (medical/dental/vision): base plan 100% covered

• Flexible hours and a long-standing, supportive remote environment

• Unlimited vacation: Take time when you need it (and we really mean it!)

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Wellness stipend

• Weekly meal stipend

• Learning & Development stipend

• Remote / WFH set-up stipend

We strongly encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply. We believe that our work is stronger with a variety of perspectives, and we’re eager to further diversify our company. If you have a background that you feel would make an impact at Phantom, please consider applying. We’re committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.