Senior Go Backend Architect – Distributed DeFi Platform

Easyblock Innovations; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Easyblock Innovations is seeking a Distributed Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend infrastructure powering a DeFi protocol. You will work on distributed systems that process blockchain events in real time, operate blockchain infrastructure, and coordinate asynchronous workloads.

The role focuses on Go-based microservices, event-driven architectures, REST/ gRPC APIs, and CI/CD with Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend software engineering experience with Go.
• Experience designing distributed systems and microservice architectures.
• Strong understanding of concurrency, parallel programming, and system design principles.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and production-grade APIs.
• Experience debugging distributed systems; familiarity with AWS, GCP, or Azure; strong Linux knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable distributed backend services and fault-tolerant microservices in Go.
• Build event-driven architectures optimized for high throughput, low latency, and automatic recovery.
• Integrate with multiple EVM-compatible networks; develop event listeners and transaction broadcasting services.
• Operate and optimize RPC node infrastructure; handle reorgs and transaction lifecycle management safely.
• Build high-performance blockchain indexers and distributed worker pipelines that process millions of events.
• Design REST/gRPC APIs, auth services, caching, rate limiting, notifications, and analytics.
• Deploy with Docker and Kubernetes; own CI/CD, monitoring, logging, alerting, and infrastructure automation.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems design

Concurrency

PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP/Azure

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

RabbitMQ

NATS

Job description

Easyblock Innovations is seeking a Distributed Backend Engineer to design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend infrastructure powering a DeFi protocol. You will work on distributed systems that process blockchain events in real time, operate blockchain infrastructure, and coordinate asynchronous workloads.

The role focuses on Go-based microservices, event-driven architectures, REST/ gRPC APIs, and CI/CD with Docker and Kubernetes.